• Corrie E Chumpitazi, Lauren Allister, Christine Cho, Jennifer A Hoffmann, Deborah Hsu, Maya Iyer, Karen Mangold, Meg Marino, Kimberly A Randell, Haley Ponce, and Selena Hariharan.
• From the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
• Pediatr Emerg Care. 2022 Sep 1; 38 (9): e1552e1556e1552-e1556.

ObjectivesThe Women in Pediatric Emergency Medicine (PEM) subcommittee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine identified 2 top priorities for 2021: career development and mentorship/sponsorship. The objective of this study was to catalog and delineate the career development domains for women physicians in PEM.MethodsAfter a review of the literature to identify the key areas for gaps for women in PEM, we used Q sort methodology to elicit domains for this subcommittee to address by survey of a national sample.ResultsOne hundred fourteen discrete potential areas of interest for career development were identified by the working group based on salient themes from the literature and personal experiences. Forty-one Women in PEM subcommittee members (27%) completed the survey. The career development topics were sorted into the domains of personal (40.4%; n = 46), administrative (28.1%; n = 32), research (10.5%; n = 12), teaching (10.5%; n = 12), service (7.0%; n = 8), and clinical (3.5%; n = 4).ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that the career development needs of women in PEM include a range of personal, teaching, research, administrative, clinical, and service domains. However, more than two-thirds of the career development topics were categorized into just 2 domains, administrative and personal.Copyright © 2022 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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