The aim of the study is to document how academics who mother have reorganized work and childcare since the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States, how those shifts have affected their academic productivity, and solutions proposed by academics living these experiences. We collected data via an online survey and, subsequently, by conducting qualitative interviews with a subsample of participants. From June to August 2020, 131 female-identified academics who mother were recruited via a Facebook group, , and participated in our online survey.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe describe the practice of 3 regional specialists in neurology in 1993 and 1994 at Hospital de Cruces in Vizcaya. Each neurologist alternately spent 1 day working in the hospital ward and another day working in an external clinic in the region, thus allowing clinic patients to be seen consistently by the same neurologist, while responsibility for inpatients could be shared by 2 physicians. All clinic patients in the region and the majority of hospital patients were covered by these specialists.
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