Sex differences in academic rank in US medical schools in 2014

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 314, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1149-1158

  Jena, Anupam B ^a,b,c   Khullar, Dhruv ^a,b   Ho, Oliver ^a   Olenski, Andrew R ^a   Blumenthal, Daniel M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC FACULTY RANK; ACADEMIC PHYSICIAN; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MIDDLE AGED; NONMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS; OBSTETRICS; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSOR; PUBLICATION; RESEARCH; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SPECIALIZATION; UNITED STATES; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CAREER MOBILITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE PHYSICIAN; MANPOWER; MEDICINE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAREER MOBILITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICIANS, WOMEN; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; SEX DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942693448     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2015.10680     Document Type: Article

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