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<div>RE: women in medicine</div>
<div>here's another pair of articles that's relevant to the
discussion:</div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Head to Head, Are there too
many female medical graduates? Yes</b></font></div>
<div><a href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/336/7647/749"><font
size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Head to Head, Are there too many female
medical graduates? No</b></font></a></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">An article published in the April
5 issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) featured a provocative
(to say the least) "Head to Head" feature on the question,
"Are there too many female medical graduates?" According to
accompanying text in the journal, at some UK schools more than 65
percent of the medical school matriculants are female. Brian McKinstry
contends that "Too many female graduates are bad for medicine,
just as too many male ones have been in the past." He argues that
"The case for this is simply on grounds of equal opportunity. But
there are also strong economic and workforce planning reasons."
Jane Dacre argues that the focus should be on "...ensuring
equality of opportunity in medicine, rather than worrying about having
too many women." She argues, "Both men and women make first
rate doctors. They should be encouraged into the profession, but in
order to welcome women to the more senior positions, it is worth
paying attention to the institutional barriers that prevent their
progression into leadership positions."</font></div>
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<div> 1. RE: (no subject) (Piraino, Beth)</div>
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<div>Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:11:49 -0400</div>
<div>From: "Piraino, Beth"
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<div>Subject: RE: [Womeninmedicine] (no subject)</div>
<div>To: "Weisz, Ora" <Weisz@dom.pitt.edu>,
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<div>47 hours per week work!! Now that would be
delightful.</div>
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<div>Beth Piraino, MD</div>
<div>Professor of Medicine</div>
<div>Associate Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid</div>
<div>University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine</div>
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Weisz, Ora</div>
<div>Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:03 AM</div>
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<div>Carol Feghali-Bostwick in Pulmonary sent me this article about
women</div>
<div>doctors being blamed for the 'shortage of doctors' because they
work</div>
<div>fewer hours a week.</div>
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>http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_17/b4081104183847.ht<span
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<div>The article is attached as a pdf in case you can't open the
link.</div>
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<div>Also, I do want to mention that Carol was very recently selected
to</div>
<div>receive the second annual Carol Bausbaum award given by the
ATS</div>
<div>Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology (RCMB) Assembly.This award
has</div>
<div>been created to honor a junior faculty member who has (1)
demonstrated</div>
<div>excellence in research present in abstracts submitted to the
RCMB, (2)</div>
<div>has a record of research that is supportive of the mission of
the</div>
<div>RCMB--to promote the study of the scientific basis of lung
disease, and</div>
<div>(3) promotes those ideas that were in the spirit of Carol
Basbaum's</div>
<div>work--enthusiasm, a dedication to mentoring, and high quality
research</div>
<div>in the pursuit of mechanisms of lung disease. So congratulations,
Carol-</div>
<div>well done! And I hope that other listserv subscribers will use
this</div>
<div>forum to share other awards to or notable achievements by women
faculty</div>
<div>in our department so we can toot each others' horns!</div>
<div>Ora</div>
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