Women were more likely than men to leave academic medicine at all career stages, highlighting the need for diversity, equity and inclusion efforts that target recruiting and retaining female physicians, according to an expert.
Because keeping female physicians in academic health care is crucial in serving the needs of diverse patient populations, Ya-Wen Chen, MD, MPH, an instructor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and colleagues conducted a cohort study to investigate differences in the rates of leaving academia between female and male physicians.
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