Female Doctors in Canada : Experience and Culture / Earle Waugh, Shirley Schipper, Shelley Ross.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ross, Shelley, editor.

Schipper, Shirley, editor.

Waugh, Earle, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical education--Canada.

Women in medicine--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Female Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession. As the ratio of practicing physicians' shifts from predominately male to predominately female, issues such as work hours, caregiving, and doctor-patient relationships will all be affected. Canada's medical education is based on a system that has always been designed by and for men; this is also true of our healthcare systems, influencing how women practice, what type of medicine they choose to practice, and how they wish to balance their personal lives with their work. With the intent to open a larger conversation, Female Doctors in Canada reconsiders medical education, health systems, and expectations, in light of the changing face of medicine. Highlighting the particular experience of women working in the medical profession, editors trace the history of female practitioners, while also providing a perspective on the contemporary struggles women face as they navigate a system that was tailored to the male experience, and is yet to be modified.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface: Why a Book about Female Doctors?

Acknowledgments

Section One. Introductory Perspectives: Female Doctors in Canada

1. The Feminization of Medicine: Issues and Implications / Ross, Shelley

2. "Unsex Me Here!" Gender as a Barrier to Female Practice: A Historical Introduction to Women Doctors in Canada / Stanley, Heather

Professionalization in Canada - An Annotated Timeline / Stanley, Heather

3. Cultural Barriers within Medicine / Tsikata, Setorme

4. Current State of Women in Medicine: The Statistics / Hamza, Deena M. / Ross, Shelley

Section Two. Navigating the Reality of Becoming and Being a Female Physician in a Traditionally Male Profession: Social and Cultural Issues

5. Gendered Experience, Role Models and Mentorship, Leadership, and the Hidden Curriculum / Bethune, Cheri

6. Female International Medical Graduates in Canada / Schabort, Inge

Section Three. Career Experience: Examining Cultural Patterns within the Medical Community and Health Care System

7. Career Trajectory of Women in Medicine: Taming the Winds That Blow Us / Gartke, Kathleen / Dollin, Janet

8. Quality of Life/Life-Work Balance / Ross, Shelley

Section Four. Contemporary Perspectives on Women in Medicine

9. Women Physicians as Ethical Decision Makers / Fredericks, Erin

10. Women and New Forms of Medicine / Olsen, Monica / Gautam, Mamta / Kernaghan, Gillian

11. Patients, Women Family Doctors, and Patient-Centred Care / Feldman, Perle

Section Five. Female Doctors in Canada: Futures

12. Female Doctors in Canada: The Way Forward / Waugh, Earle / Ross, Shelley / Schipper, Shirley

Contributors

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-1977-X

1-4875-1976-1

OCLC:

1083118945