Women in Medical Education: An Anthology of ExperienceDelese Wear Women in Medical Education combines personal narratives written by sixteen women medical educators who, as clinicians, basic scientists, administrators, and medical humanities faculty, write of their experiences with students, patients, colleagues, and administrators. Their narratives reflect the issues confronting women in the medical academy today, including working in situations where power relations are embedded and enacted daily in the ethos of the institution; where rigid disciplinary boundaries do not include or invite inquiry into gender, race, ethnicity, or class; where integrating one's personal and work life often seems overwhelming. Yet their stories reflect the success and recognition that women in academic medicine have achieved. The book includes essays written by Beth Alexander, Janet Bickel, Dale G. Blackstock, Kate H. Brown, Lucy M. Candib, Pamela Charney, Frances Conley, Leah J. Dickstein, Jacalyn Duffin, Deborah Jones, Perri Klass, Mary Mahowald, Marian Gray Secundy, Marjorie S. Sirridge, Rebekah Wang-Cheng, and the editor. |
Contents
Overview of Women Physicians in the United States | 3 |
Leveling the Playing Field A National Perspective on Sexism and Professional Development in Medicine | 11 |
Womens Programs at Medical Schools and Feminism What is the Intersection? | 21 |
Lighting Candles Making Sparks and Remembering Not To Forget | 33 |
A Feminist in the Medical Academy An Idealistic Pragmatist Account | 47 |
Father Knows Best ? | 59 |
A Black Woman in Medicine | 75 |
The Feminization of Medicine | 81 |
Innovations in Residency Education General Internal MedicineWomens Health Residency Track | 113 |
Life as a Sheep in the Cows Pasture | 119 |
The Echo of My Mothers Footsteps | 127 |
How Medicine Tried to Make a Man Out of Me And Failed Finally | 135 |
Moments of Becoming After Virginia Woolf | 145 |
Special Armor | 159 |
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Contributors | 177 |
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