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Opening Keynote Address: How Far We Have Come, How Far We Still Have to Go: How Women Saved American Medicine
Pages 5-10

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... It is a great pleasure to introduce Carola Eisenberg, who is former dean for student affairs and the first woman full dean at Harvard Medical School. Many of you know Dr.
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... Abraham Flexner put it succinctly in 1910: "John Hopkins graduates in medicine represent the highest quality this country has produced." As for the second point, nearly a century later women came to the rescue of American medicine again. In the mid-1970s, the number of male applicants to medical schools began to decline.
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... Men and women alike need basic reform in the career structure. We need to increase fellowship stipends, to convert lengthy postdoc fellowships into faculty or staff positions, and to provide support for independent research careers at the end of postdoctoral training.
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... It strikes on an average day for a doctor who is a mother -- that is, on a day that consists of getting up in time to make breakfast for the children, getting them dressed and off to school, rushing to work, seeing patients, leading a seminar, reviewing the NIH pink sheet awarding one a grant score just below the funding level, attending a committee meeting as the token female, squeezing in emergency consultations, rushing home just in time to meet the children returning on the 5:30 school bus, preparing dinner, spending an hour of quality time with the children, getting them to bed, and then trying to read. And suffering, of course, acute narcolepsy.
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... To quote from the Association of American Medical Colleges [AAMC] report on increasing women's leadership in academic medicine, Few schools, hospitals or professional societies have what might be considered a critical mass of women leaders.
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