Academic medicine should lead the way on gender equity: but it doesnt

Postgraduate Medical Journal (PMJ) includes an interesting article by an eclectic group of authors from the USA, Singapore and the Middle East.1 They studied aspects of gender equity in accredited clinician-educator programmes in Singapore, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. In short, their conclusions show that the situation regarding gender equity, or the lack of it, is no better in those locations than it is in North America, Europe or Australasia on which much of the previous comparable literature has focused. The study defined clinician educators as 'physicians whose primary responsibilities are patient care and education, and whose research represents only minor portion (sic) of academic contributions' and included a high proportion of people whose professional education was from Europe or the USA, that is, introducing international mobility as a feature of the population under study. The most concerning findings were that women were less likely to have an academic...

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