Achieving XXcellence in Science Role of Professional Societies in Advancing Women in Science: Proceedings of a Workshop (2004) / Chapter Skim
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Session IV: Closing Plenary
Session IV: Closing Plenary
Closing Remarks: Achieving XXcellence
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SESSION IV Closing Plenary
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I finish by asking how can professional societies enhance the development of careers for women in clinical research?
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That includes all the mentor career development awards that we've heard about today, which really are aiming at the crux of the problem: how to bring more young investigators, both men and women, into clinical investigation. The answer is to provide structured mentored 1Institute of Medicine, Careers in Clinical Research: Obstacles and Opportunities (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1994)
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I had the great job of reviewing for one calendar year the abstracts from every NIH grant submission if either "I" or "B" or clinical investigation was checked on the front sheet. When we looked at those abstracts and then asked how many of these grants were funded versus the priority scores or ranking of those grants by a study section, we learned (and we published in the Journal of the American Medical Association)
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Goldstein and Brown used PAIDS to refer to the "paralyzed academic investigators disease syndrome." They posited many of the same issues that have been discussed previously. First, there is a knowledge gap between medical school and a research career, which in the context of this article is a career in clinical investigation.
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The key findings are that women comprise 14 percent of tenured faculty, 12 percent of full professors, and 8 percent of department chairs in the United States and that very few schools, hospitals, or professional societies have a critical mass of women leaders. Moreover, the pool of women from which to recruit academic leaders remains shallow.
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. Like on the AAMC national grid, the majority of women faculty at UCSF's School of Medicine are assistant professors or instructors, and, of course, the largest percentage are medical students.
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90 80 70 60 50 Percent 40 30 20 10 0 Full Associate Assistant Instructor Medical professor professor professor students Male Female FIGURE 6 Gender distribution within faculty ranks and medical students, University of CaliforniaSan Francisco School of Medicine, 2001. SOURCE: Unpublished data of the author.
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prestigious series. We at UCSF are not unique, but now we have women in the assistant professor and instructor ranks in the less prestigious series.
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We have to request the reasons when the short list for any search committee does not include women or minority candidates. Personal Perspectives Clinical investigators are hybrids.
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I met them and work with them continually through the pediatric AIDS clinical trials group, through the pediatric primary immunodeficiency network, and through my societies. Societies What can societies do?
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Today is an ideal time for societies to work toward the enhancement of career advancement for women in academic medicine and for women in clinical investigation, because the current environment, through the NIH, is providing unique support for young clinical investigators. It really positions professional societies to enhance women's careers in a way that I have not seen since the early 1970s.
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We want them to be agents of change in the professions, in health careers, and in research careers for the entry and advancement of women -- not only in the basic sciences, not only in medical sciences, but also in the clinical sciences. If we focus on our interdisciplinary collaborations, interdisciplinary research, and interdisciplinary career development, we will continue to ensure that our efforts are interdisciplinary in nature, spreading across not just the medical discipline but all of the other clinical disciplines, as well as basic science and perhaps traditional and nontraditional other areas through which women contribute both as basic scientists and as clinical scientists.
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We've heard accounts of individual institutions and individual societies. But how can we measure whether these activities and your participation are making any difference in your own professional societies?
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