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J Womens Health (Larchmt)
January 2025
2019-2020 President of the American Medical Women's Association, AMWA Gender Equity Task Force Founder, Reston, Virginia, USA.
The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) highlights the ongoing gender inequities in the medical profession, particularly in pay, leadership roles, workplace treatment, and work-life integration. To present evidence of gender disparities in medicine, analyze their root causes, and propose strategies for fostering a more equitable and inclusive environment. Despite progress, women physicians continue to face significant disparities, including lower salaries, underrepresentation in leadership roles, and discrimination.
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January 2025
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Compared with the overall physician workforce, pathologist workforce in the United States has significant representation of international medical graduates (IMGs). IMG representation in the academic pathology workforce, as well as in departmental and pathology societal leadership, has not been documented. In this cross-sectional study, we surveyed a sample of 20 North American academic pathology departmental publicly available websites.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Neurointerv Surg
January 2025
Department of Neurosurgery, University at Buffalo Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, USA
Background: Early literature on the Woven EndoBridge (WEB) device reported 80-90% adequate aneurysm occlusion but low complete occlusion (40-55%). It is uncertain whether residual or recurrent aneurysms require re-treatment to prevent future rupture.
Objective: To systematically review the literature to meta-analyze occlusion and complication rates after re-treatment of these aneurysms.
Cureus
December 2024
Internal Medicine, Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, USA.
Background Daily interdisciplinary rounds in hospitals are becoming standardized to maximize the multidisciplinary approach to hospitalized patient care. We hypothesize that structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (IDRs) increase the satisfaction, education, and experience of medical staff and thus detail actionable recommendations for IDR implementation or delineate measurable long-term impacts. Methods This observational study was performed in a 300-bed community hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFShoulder Elbow
January 2025
Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Boca Raton, FL, USA.
Background: Women continue to make up a minority of orthopedic surgeons, especially shoulder and elbow surgeons. There exists no study that investigates the effect of gender on one's academic career as a shoulder and elbow orthopedic surgeon, which was the purpose of this cross-sectional study.
Methods: The American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons website was used to identify surgeons.
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