Gender equity in the medical profession / Maria Irene Bellini, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, UK, Vassilios E. Papalois, Imperial College London, UK.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellini, Maria Irene, 1982- author.

Contributor:

Bellini, Maria Irene, 1982- editor.

Papalois, Vassilios E., editor.

Series:

Premier reference source.

Advances in medical education, research, and ethics (AMERE) book series. 2475-6601.

Advances in medical education, research, and ethics (AMERE) book series, 2475-6601

Gale eBooks

Premier reference source

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical personnel.

Sexism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 339 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Hershey, Pennsylvania : Medical Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global), [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"This book examines how to strategically tackle gender equity at different levels of medical education. It also provides insights and support to executives with the management of expertise, knowledge, information and organizational development at different levels to improve gender equity in the medical community"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Supporting surgeons to have families: fertility, pregnancy, parental leave, and return to work

Chapter 2. Parental leave during surgical training: gender equity, parental leave, parental policies, childbearing, conciliation, surgery

Chapter 3. Representation of gender equality from the perspective of the medical trainee and its ripple effect: highlighting gender inequality in medical student experiences

Chapter 4. Training martians and Venusians on Jupiter: gender equity in medical training

Chapter 5. Understanding the value of gender equity in healthcare and how to pursue it

Chapter 6. Sexism in medical communication

Chapter 7. Gender equity in medical leadership

Chapter 8. The gender pay gap in medicine: causes and solutions

Chapter 9. Parallels between improving the culture for women in surgery and a surgical approach to improving health for all

Chapter 10. Impostor syndrome as a risk factor in the development of psychiatric symptoms in female doctors

Chapter 11. The imposter phenomenon in the medical profession

Chapter 12. Who will take care of me?: the future of human resources in anaesthesiology, critical care, and emergency medicine in Europe.

Chapter 13. Gender equity evaluated by five successful women in the medical profession

Chapter 14. Gender equity in the medical profession as a democratic culture: the Portuguese experience

Chapter 15. Gender equity in medicine in Sweden

Chapter 16. Women in the medical field in India: a developing economy a dichotomous picture

Chapter 17. Gender equity in surgical academia in Kuwait and the Arabian Gulf Region

Chapter 18. Gender inequity in the United States surgical workforce

Chapter 19. Prophylaxis in action: Metoo for women of medical and surgical disciplines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781522596004

OCLC:

1125190852