Introduction: Resident physicians frequently experience bias at work, with patients and families often being the source. Women and other trainees underrepresented in medicine are disproportionately impacted by these negative experiences, and experiencing bias contributes to resident physician burnout. Unfortunately, many resident physicians feel inadequately prepared to respond to bias.
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January 2024
Clinicians report experiencing bias at work. Although previous studies have characterized these experiences among trainees and clinical faculty, ours is the first to describe experiences of bias within a multidisciplinary hospital medicine group. In our study, 82.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWomen physicians are promoted less often, more likely to experience harassment and bias, and paid less than their male peers. Although many institutions have developed initiatives to help women physicians overcome these professional hurdles, few are specifically geared toward physicians-in-training. The Women in Medicine Trainees' Council (WIMTC) was created in 2015 to support the professional advancement of women physicians-in-training in the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Medicine (MGH-DOM).
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