Influences for Gender Disparity in the Radiology Societies in North America

Hamidizadeh, Ramin; Jalal, Sabeena; Pindiprolu, Bharadwaj; Tiwana, Muhammad Hamza; Macura, Katarzyna J.; Qamar, Sadia; Nicolaou, Savvas; Khosa, Faisal

doi:10.2214/ajr.18.19741

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“…In evaluating demographic data in this study, a sobering observation concerns the lack of diversity of current VCEs of EM in the United States. Findings are congruent with other studies that highlight gender disparities in medicine . According to the 2013–2014 AAMC report, The State of Women in Academic Medicine , only 15% of department chairs and 16% of deans are women, with only a marginal increase observed over the past decade .…”

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confidence: 86%

The Vice Chair of Education in Emergency Medicine: A Workforce Study to Establish the Role, Clarify Responsibilities, and Plan for Success

Papanagnou

Messman

Branzetti

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AEM Education and Training

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Objectives: Despite increasing prevalence in emergency medicine (EM), the vice chair of education (VCE) role remains ambiguous with regard to associated responsibilities and expectations. This study aimed to identify training experiences of current VCEs, clarify responsibilities, review career paths, and gather data to inform a unified job description.Methods: A 40-item, anonymous survey was electronically sent to EM VCEs. VCEs were identified through EM chairs, residency program directors, and residency coordinators through solicitation e-mails distributed through respective listservs. Quantitative data are reported as percentages with 95% confidence intervals and continuous variables as medians with interquartiles (IQRs). Open-and axial-coding methods were used to organize qualitative data into thematic categories.Results: Forty-seven of 59 VCEs completed the survey (79.6% response rate); 74.4% were male and 89.3% were white. Average time in the role was 3.56 years (median = 3.0 years, IQR = 4.0 years), with 74.5% serving as inaugural VCE. Many respondents held at least one additional administrative title. Most had no defined job description (68.9%) and reported no defined metrics of success (88.6%). Almost 78% received a reduction in clinical duties, with an average reduction of 27.7% protected time effort (median = 27.2%, IQR = 22.5%). Responsibilities thematically link to faculty affairs and promotion of the departmental educational mission and scholarship.Conclusion: Given the variability in expectations observed, the authors suggest the adoption of a unified VCE job description with detailed responsibilities and performance metrics to ensure success in the role. Efforts to improve the diversity of VCEs are encouraged to better match the diversity of learners.From the

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confidence: 86%

The Vice Chair of Education in Emergency Medicine: A Workforce Study to Establish the Role, Clarify Responsibilities, and Plan for Success

Papanagnou

Messman

Branzetti

et al. 2019

AEM Education and Training

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“…In Europe, less gender disparity has been reported for the younger generations, as reflected in the membership of the European Society of Radiology (6). However, despite more women entering careers in medical imaging, they lag behind their male peers in career advancement (3,4,6,25,26).…”

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Author Gender Inequality in Medical Imaging Journals and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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I n many countries today, women make up half of medical students, and the number of female students choosing to pursue a career in medical imaging (radiology and nuclear medicine) is rising (1,2). However, the higher up the career ladder, the lower the proportion of women, a phenomenon known as the leaky pipeline (3). Compared with their male colleagues, women are underrepresented as authors, and leadership positions in medical imaging-either within institutions or within scientific organizations, committees, boards, or journals-are still dominated by men (4-6). Examples of challenges women face in general are maledominated cultures and networks, lack of female mentors, and explicit and implicit gender biases in recruitment, research allocation, outcomes of peer reviews, and citations (7-10). Working mothers face the well-described maternal wall bias, where maternal stereotyping and discrimination undermine their professional performance (11).Early reports on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on scientific research, all fields concerned, mention the deleterious effect the pandemic might have on the careers of parents working in science, and in particular on the scientific output of female researchers (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17). This is due to an unbalanced division of work, as women still perform the majority of household chores and care work, even in developed countries perceived as gender-egalitarian (18,19). Because schools and daycare facilities closed in many countries during the first COVID-19-related lockdown, the pandemic might thus eventually affect female career advancement, as the number and quality of publications in peer-reviewed journals one has authored are essential.The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic might have an impact on scientific publishing by female physicians in medical imaging. We performed a descriptive bibliometric analysis of female first and last authorship over the 3-month period corresponding to the first lockdown period in most countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Background: Early reports show the unequal effect the COVID-19 pandemic might have on men versus women engaged in medical research.Purpose: To investigate whether the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on scientific publishing by female physicians in medical imaging. Materials and Methods:The authors conducted a descriptive bibliometric analysis of the gender of the first and last authors of manuscripts submitted to the top 50 medical imaging journals from March to May 2020 (n = 2480) compared with the same period of the year in 2018 (n = 2238) and 2019 (n = 2355). Manuscript title, date of submission, first and last names of the first and last authors, journal impact factor, and author country of provenance were recorded. The Gender-API software was used to determine author gender. Statistical analysis comprised x 2 tests and multivariable logistic regression.

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“…There are fewer published female first authors and fewer female senior authors in radiology (7,8). Women radiologists are also underrepresented on editorial boards for radiology journals, in national societies and are known to be paid less than their male counterparts at the highest levels of leadership (9,10,11,12,13). Additionally, NIH funding between 2016-2019 awarded more and larger grants to male radiologists than their female counterparts (14).…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on Radiology Faculty - An Exacerbation of Gender Differences in Unpaid Home Duties and Professional Productivity

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Influences for Gender Disparity in the Radiology Societies in North America

Abstract: Gender disparity exists in the leadership positions in North American radiology societies. We have attempted to study the relationship between gender, academic rank, and h-index with leadership roles in these societies.

Cited by 60 publications

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The Vice Chair of Education in Emergency Medicine: A Workforce Study to Establish the Role, Clarify Responsibilities, and Plan for Success

The Vice Chair of Education in Emergency Medicine: A Workforce Study to Establish the Role, Clarify Responsibilities, and Plan for Success

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Impact of COVID-19 on Radiology Faculty - An Exacerbation of Gender Differences in Unpaid Home Duties and Professional Productivity

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