Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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A good chief resident is under pressure from residents and the department director and must work for the welfare of both the housestaff and the institution. Using precepts from Niccoló Machiavelli's The Prince, the author gives advice for chief residents on how to balance their responsibilities. The author, using Machiavelli's precepts, discusses the difficulties of introducing change, supervising former colleagues and peers, the opprobrium that inevitably attaches to tough decisions, the need to set good examples, and other aspects of being a chief resident.
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Although medicine has been traditionally a man's profession, a full third of medical students are now women, and in some schools nearly a half. Only a few articles exist exploring gender differences in the interview process. Implications of sexual discrimination have been made regarding the weight of the interview, the descriptors applied to the women interviewees, and the tones of their letters of reference. ⋯ The current study was designed to explore any relationships between the questions asked in the interview and the gender of the applicant. The women were more frequently asked about their plans for marriage and children, while the men were more often questioned about their reasons for entering medicine or selection of a specialty. The interviewees believed they could give more honest responses to interviewers of the same gender.