Making the Voices of Female Trainees Heard
Authors: Lisa S. Rotenstein, Rebecca A. Berman, Joel T. Katz, Maria A. Yialamas
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (2018)

Ideas and Opinions4 September 2018Making the Voices of Female Trainees HeardLisa S. Rotenstein, MD, MBA, Rebecca A. Berman, MD, Joel T. Katz, MD, and Maria A. Yialamas, MDLisa S. Rotenstein, MD, MBABrigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (L.S.R., R.A.B., J.T.K., M.A.Y.), Rebecca A. Berman, MDBrigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (L.S.R., R.A.B., J.T.K., M.A.Y.), Joel T. Katz, MDBrigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (L.S.R., R.A.B., J.T.K., M.A.Y.), and Maria A. Yialamas, MDBrigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (L.S.R., R.A.B., J.T.K., M.A.Y.)Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/M18-1118 SectionsAboutFull TextPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail Female physicians are significantly less likely to become full professors and are paid lower salaries than their male colleagues (1). Many current trainees and faculty recognize this but assume that wide disparities during residency training are relics of the workplaces of generations past. Although the authors of this article experienced or observed minor discrimination in our training and workplace, we presumed that when contributors to gender-based disparities arose in our programs or among our colleagues, they would be obvious and thus quickly eliminated. 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Forms can be viewed at www.acponline.org/authors/icmje/ConflictOfInterestForms.do?msNum=M18-1118.Corresponding Author: Lisa S. Rotenstein, MD, MBA, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115; e-mail, [email protected]org.Current Author Addresses: Drs. Rotenstein, Berman, Katz, and Yialamas: Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115.Author Contributions: Conception and design: L.S. Rotenstein, R.A. Berman, J.T. Katz, M.A. Yialamas.Analysis and interpretation of the data: L.S. Rotenstein, J.T. Katz, M.A. Yialamas.Drafting of the article: L.S. Rotenstein, R.A. Berman, J.T. Katz, M.A. Yialamas.Critical revision of the article for important intellectual content: L.S. Rotenstein, R.A. Berman, M.A. Yialamas.Final approval of the article: L.S. Rotenstein, R.A. Berman, J.T. Katz, M.A. Yialamas.Administrative, technical, or logistic support: L.S. Rotenstein, J.T. Katz.Collection and assembly of data: L.S. Rotenstein, J.T. Katz, M.A. Yialamas.This article was published at Annals.org on 17 July 2018. 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