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Number of Female Medical Residents Increases Over the Past 10 Years According to AAMC Report
Washington, D.C., December 15, 2000 -- The proportion of women medical residents has grown from 28 percent of all residents in 1989 to 38 percent ten years later according to the Association of American Medical College's (AAMC) Women in U.S. Academic Medicine Statistics 1999-2000. Of the 36,436 women residents in 1999, over one-quarter were training in internal medicine. This report also includes national statistics on women medical students, faculty and administrators, as well as school-identified data on women's representation compiled for the third-straight year by the AAMC's Project Implementation Committee on Increasing Women's Leadership.
During 1999-2000, the proportion of accepted women medical students (45.7 percent) slightly exceeded the proportion of accepted men (44.8 percent). Women made up the majority of new entrants at 36 U.S. medical schools, up from 21 schools in the proceeding year.
The proportion of women faculty increased slightly to 28 percent. The percentage of new faculty hires who are women averaged 37 percent in comparison to 32 percent in 1997. However, women comprise only 12 percent of all full professors and the proportion of women faculty attaining this rank is increasing at only a miniscule rate. On average, there are 21 women full professors per medical school, including non-tenured and basic sciences faculty, compared to 161 men at that rank.
Women department chairs number 180, 7.5 percent of all department chairs. There are at least 23 schools with no women department chairs. The number of women assistant, associate, and senior associate deans rose to 454 (up from 422 in 1998 and 394 in 1997). As of December 2000, four of the 125 U.S. medical school deans are women; an additonal three women are interim deans.
"Since women started entering medicine in force in the 1970s, medical schools have made enormous progress in the gender equity department," said Janet Bickel, AAMC's associate vice president for institutional planning and development. "But substantial work remains to ensure that a higher proportion of women physicians develop their leadership potential and progress in academic medicine."
This report was prepared by the AAMC's Janet Bickel, Valarie Clark, and Renee Marshall Lawson. To order a copy, please contact the AAMC Publication Office at 202-828-0416. Questions about the report can be directed to Renee Marshall Lawson at 202-828-0521.
Importance of Women's Health in Medical Education
The November issue of the AAMC's journal Academic Medicine focuses on the importance of integrating women's health in medical education. All U.S. medical school graduates need to have a working knowledge of sex-and gender-based differences and the skills to keep themselves informed and competent as the field of women's health becomes more defined. The journal's theme issue entitled, "A New and Wider View-Women's Health as a Catalyst for Reform of Medical Education" is edited by Glenda D. Donoghue, M.D., MCP Hahnemann School of Medicine; Eileen Hoffman, M.D., Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; and Diane Magrane, M.D., University of Vermont College of Medicine.
The issue also touches on the importance of all medical students learning how to access and use the growing database of information about women's health. Medical students need additional tools with which to critically analyze the older medical literature, since much of it has excluded sex- and gender-based analysis of research findings and has excluded women and a women-centered focus from research.
AAMC's Academic Medicine is available online. The journal is the oldest English-language peer-reviewed journal devoted to issues related to the training of physicians.
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The Association of American Medical Colleges represents the 125 accredited U.S. medical schools; the 16 accredited Canadian medical schools; some 400 major teaching hospitals, including 74 Veterans Administration medical centers; 91 academic and professional societies representing nearly 88,000 faculty members; and the nation's 67,000 medical students and 102,000 residents.
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