Research, Articles and Resources

Which gender supplies better leaders for organizations? Based on research conducted by Zenger Folkman, the authority in strengths-based leadership development, the answer is rather clear and quite shocking. As far as the 16 researched differentiating leadership competencies are concerned women excelled in a majority of areas.

Student evaluations of teaching (SETs) often have important effects on promotion, tenure, and meritraises, even if only through the negative effects that poor evaluations can have on these decisions (Langbein 1994).

Nathalie (all names in this article are disguised), a senior marketing manager at a multinational consumer goods company and a contender for chairman in her country, was advised by her boss to raise her profile locally.

Women represent a persistently low proportion of faculty in senior and leadership roles in medical schools, despite an adequate pipeline.

Explanations for women’s underrepresentation in math-intensive fields of science often focus on sex discrimination in grant and manuscript reviewing, interviewing, and hiring. Claims that women scientists suffer discrimination in these […]

Human meaning is not given before language in and by some detached, prelinguistic domain and then labeled with words. Rather, language itself, always already ardently at play in our lives, is constitutive of the realities of our experience, opening up to us a uniquely human world.

Faculty members in medical schools and academic medical centers are in a constant process of generating new knowledge. The cornerstone of academia and academic medicine – scholarship.

A majority of executives believe gender diversity in leadership links to better financial performance, but companies take few actions to support women in the workforce.

Katharine, a senior HR executive at a global financial services firm, takes pride in developing rising stars. After a vice president on one of her teams consistently impressed her, she recommended him for a more challenging role in another part of the company. Months later Katharine heard through the grapevine that he was struggling in the job. She asked to meet with him.

Are you at any early stage in your career? Does the ticking of the tenure and promotion clock seem to get louder with each passing week? Maybe you have started thinking about what you need to do to “climb the ladder” of academic promotion. If this sounds familiar, then this article may be helpful to you.

The differences model, which argues that males and females are vastly different psychologically, dominates the popular media. Here, the author advances a very different view, the gender similarities hypothesis, which holds that males and females are similar on most, but not all, psychological variables.

Several recent articles in this journal, including the article by Linzer and colleagues in this issue, discuss and promote the concept of part-time careers in academic medicine as a solution to the need to achieve a work–life balance and to address the changing demographics of academic medicine.

Disruptive conduct by physicians is increasingly cited as a problem in health care systems. The American Medical Association has defined disruptive physician behavior as “Conduct, whether verbal or physical, that negatively affects or that potentially may negatively affect patient care disruptive behavior. (This includes but is not limited to conduct that interferes with one’s ability to work with other members of the health care team).”

Although disruptive physician behavior is widely considered a source of concern in the patient care environment, surgeons have been the specialty most commonly identified as ‘‘disruptive physicians.’’ This conduct distracts from patient care and negatively affects the morale of the team surrounding a disruptive physician.

Academic medicine depends upon talented and vibrant faculty members, but reports of difficulties in recruiting to academic posts in the United Kingdom,1 and career dissatisfaction in the United States, 2 have led to calls for action to improve careers in academic medicine. Supporting the professional and personal development of the medical faculty is fundamental to strengthening and renewing achievements in patient care, teaching, and research.

Although women and minorities have made significant strides in achieving equality in the workplace, they are still
underrepresented in the upper strata of organizations, including senior faculty and leadership positions at medical
schools and teaching hospitals.

How many times have we as teachers been confronted with situations in which we really were not sure what to do? We “flew by the seat of our pants,” usually doing with our learners what had been done with us. It would be useful to be able to turn to a set of guiding principles based on evidence, or at least on long term successful experience.

Twitter is a growing social media platform in medical education. This forum is facilitated by the use of hashtag(#).

During the past 50 years, leadership scholars have conducted more than 1,000 studies in an attempt to determine the definitive styles, characteristics, or personality traits of great leaders. None of these studies has produced a clear profile of the ideal leader. Thank goodness.

Although women and minorities have made significant strides in achieving equality in the workplace, they are still underrepresented in the upper strata of organizations, including senior faculty
and leadership positions at medical schools and teaching hospitals.

How many times have we as teachers been confronted with situations in which we really were not sure what to do? We “flew by the seat of our pants,” usually doing with our learners what had been done with us. It would be useful to be able to turn to a set of guiding principles based on evidence, or at least on long term successful experience. Fortunately, a body of theory exists that can inform practice. An unfortunate gap between academics and practitioners, however, has led to a perception of theory as belonging to an “ivory tower” and not relevant to practice.

The purpose of this diagram is to educate novice, but frequent “tweeters” on the possible uses of Twitter in medical education by highliting the usefullness of #MedEd as an educational tool in independent learning and teaching.