• Acad Emerg Med · Dec 2021

    Multicenter Study

    Addressing Gender Inequities: Creation of a Multi-Institutional Consortium of Women Physicians in Academic Emergency Medicine.

    • Lois K Lee, Elke Platz, Jean Klig, Margaret E Samuels-Kalow, Elizabeth S Temin, Justine Nagurney, Regan Marsh, Shada Rouhani, Nadia Huancahuari, Nicole M Dubosh, Katherine L Boyle, Anne Stack, and Valerie A Dobiesz.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
    • Acad Emerg Med. 2021 Dec 1; 28 (12): 1358-1367.

    AbstractGender inequity is pervasive in medicine, including emergency medicine (EM), and is well documented in workforce representation, leadership, financial compensation, and resource allocation. The reasons for gender inequities in medicine, including academic EM, are multifactorial and include disadvantageous institutional parental, family, and promotion policies; workplace environment and culture; implicit biases; and a paucity of women physician leader role models, mentors, and sponsors. To address some of the challenges of gender inequities and career advancement for women in academic EM, we established an innovative, peer-driven, multi-institutional consortium of women EM faculty employed at four distinct hospitals affiliated with one medical school. The consortium combined financial and faculty resources to execute gender-specific programs not feasible at an individual institution due to limited funding and faculty availability. The programs included leadership skill-building and negotiation seminars for consortium members. The consortium created a collaborative community designed specifically to enrich career development for women in academic EM, with a formal organizational structure to connect faculty from four hospitals under one academic institution. The objective of this report is to describe the creation of this cross-institutional consortium focused on career development, academic productivity, and networking and sharing best practices for work-life integration for academic EM women faculty. This consortium-building model could be used to enhance existing institutional career development structures for women and other physician communities in academic medicine with unique career advancement challenges.© 2021 by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.

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