Gender and academic medicine: Impacts on the health workforce

British Medical Journal

Volumn 329, Issue 7469, 2004, Pages 792-795

  Reichenbach, Laura ^a   Brown, Hilary ^b  

^a HARVARD CENTER FOR POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC MEDICINE; CAREER; CURRICULUM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE WORKER; GENDER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; LEADERSHIP; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAINING; ARTICLE; CAREER MOBILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CAREER MOBILITY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 4844226489     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.329.7469.792     Document Type: Review

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