American journal of surgery
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Review
Surgical job negotiations: How current literature and expert opinion can inform your strategies.
Negotiation is an essential professional skill. Surgeons negotiating new roles must consider: 1) career level (e.g., new graduate, mid-career or leadership), 2) practice environment (e.g., academic, private practice), 3) organization (e.g., academic, university-affiliated, specialized center), and 4) work-life needs (e.g., geography, joint recruitment). ⋯ Our findings shed light on common blind spots among surgeons negotiating new professional roles and provide guidance on optimizing job negotiation skills.
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We hypothesized that general surgery programs with more female faculty and leadership may be associated with more female residents. ⋯ In general surgery programs, faculty and leadership gender composition was not associated with proportion of female residents.
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Approximately 91% of urologists are male and 9% female. We aim to characterize gender differences amongst urology society awardees over the past six decades. ⋯ There is an increased trend in the representation of women awardees by urology societies, although the frequency varies widely between societies. This is in keeping with the trend of increasing number of women entering the field of urology.
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In a surgical field, where surgeons are, "sometimes wrong, but never in doubt," lack of confidence can have detrimental effects on career advancement. In other fields there is evidence that a gap exists between women and men in the amount of confidence they display, and that confidence is a proxy for success. ⋯ In order to matriculate into a surgical training program, there must be a measure of confidence and resiliency, but further work needs to be done to identify and address gender gaps in training and early academic careers.
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The availability and utility of public statements and policies on gender equity from professional surgical societies has not been studied. ⋯ Gender equity statements and policies are deficient among professional surgical societies. Prioritization of publicizing statements/policies that describe the challenges and provide potential solutions to well-documented gender inequities within surgical fields allows professional societies to promote a diverse and equitable workforce.