Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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To understand the perceptions of residents and Fellows in obstetrics and gynecology about the impacts of race or ethnicity, gender, and mentorship experiences on pursuing careers in academic medicine. ⋯ It is likely that neither men nor women residents in obstetrics and gynecology receive adequate mentorship for careers in academic medicine. Perceptions of bias are a serious barrier to developing racial, ethnic, and gender diversity in leadership positions.
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Comparative Study
Direct graduate medical education payments to teaching hospitals by Medicare: unexplained variation and public policy contradictions.
To comprehensively examine both inter- and intrastate variations in Medicare's cost-rate structure for teaching hospitals and to assess the Medicare payment system for graduate medical education (GME), as presently configured, as an instrument to promote physician workforce reform, specifically sufficient public access to primary care physician services. ⋯ Inherent inequities in DME funding seriously undermine the current Medicare GME payment system's capacity to contribute to U.S. physician workforce reform and to improve access to care. There is actually a financial incentive to train residents in areas in which there is relatively less need for their services.