Women now represent over half of medical school matriculants, almost half of residents and fellows, and over a third of practicing physicians nationally. Despite considerable representation among the physician workforce, women are paid 75 cents on ...

Shifting demographics and concerns about burnout prevention merit a reexamination of existing structures and policies related to leaves of absence that may be necessary during medical training. In this Invited Commentary, the authors address the ...

Negotiation skills are critical to career success, yet many physicians feel ill-equipped to negotiate for professional opportunities. Enhancing competencies in this arena may be especially critical for women and underrepresented minorities to reduce disparities in ...

Negotiation skills are critical to career success, yet many physicians feel ill-equipped to negotiate for professional opportunities. Enhancing competencies in this arena may be especially critical for women and underrepresented minorities to reduce disparities in ...

The business community has honed the concept of sponsorship and promulgated its utility for harnessing the talent of high-performing women and minorities whose contributions often go unrecognized within organizations. In recent years, academic medicine has ...

Women now represent over half of medical school matriculants, almost half of residents and fellows, and over a third of practicing physicians nationally. Despite considerable representation among the physician workforce, women are paid 75 cents on ...

Intimate partner violence:  screening, assessment and intervention

OBJECTIVE: Reproductive coercion is male behavior to control contraception and pregnancy outcomes of female partners. We examined the prevalence of reproductive coercion and co-occurring intimate partner violence among women presenting for routine care at a ...

Comment on Counseling about medication-induced birth defects with clinical decision support in primary care.

Using a professional organization, MomDocFamily, to understand the lives of physician-mothers.

Domestic Violence:  a clinical guide for women's health care providers

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the effects of patient and health care provider variables on rates of interpersonal violence screening in an ambulatory gynecology practice.METHODS: A cross-sectional study of 300 patients were chosen randomly from annual health ...

Physician intervention for intimate partner violence.

One in four American women will be physically assaulted or raped by an intimate partner during her lifetime. Such exposure has wide-ranging health effects. Abused women have an increased risk of cardiac, gastrointestinal, gynecologic, musculoskeletal, ...

Intimate partner violence

Intimate partner violence: a guide for clinicians 

We investigated the possibility that a proportion of children with sporadic rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) carry constitutional mutations of the p53 tumor suppressor gene. 33 patients with sporadic RMS at two large outpatient pediatric oncology clinics submitted ...

Ask the expert:  What is reproductive coercion and how prevelent is it? 

Letter to the Editor