Examining How Gender Differences in Outcomes Develop Among Physician Researchers

研究医师研究人员结果中的性别差异如何发展

基本信息

批准号：
8286916
负责人：
Reshma Jagsi
金额：
$ 25.39万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2009-09-30 至 2015-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This study seeks to understand the barriers facing junior physician faculty researchers, and women in particular, in order to inform efforts to improve gender equity in academic medicine. Despite a dramatic increase in women's participation in the medical profession over the past four decades, women remain in the distinct minority in the senior positions of academic medicine. Some have dismissed these disparities as resulting from gender differences in preferences regarding the balance between work and other pursuits or between research and clinical activity. The proposed work focuses upon an extremely selective cohort of highly apt, research-oriented junior faculty members: physician-recipients of K08 and K23 mentored career development awards from the NIH. In so doing, it minimizes the impact of potential gender differences in the desire to pursue research and in access to monetary support, allowing for the impact of other challenges and barriers to be isolated. In a preliminary study, we discovered that female K08 and K23 awardees were significantly less likely to obtain a subsequent independent R01 grant than their male colleagues. In this application, we propose a mixed-methods and interdisciplinary study to illuminate why this disparity exists. Specifically, in order to identify the key elements of academic success and to investigate and promote gender equity among these highly motivated and accomplished physician-researchers, we propose a three-phase study. In the first phase, we will conduct a large-scale survey of the entire population of 1425 physicians receiving K08 and K23 Awards from the NIH in 2005-2008, in order to assess gender differences in access to critical resources, such as protected research time and mentoring. We will then proceed to conduct a qualitative analysis of interviews with 120 relevant stakeholders, including 60 former K08 and K23 recipients and their mentors. Finally, we will conduct a follow-up survey of the 1425 physicians receiving K08 and K23 Awards in 2005-2008 to determine which resources, individual, and institutional characteristics are associated with academic success, including publication, attainment of independent funding, satisfaction, promotion, and retention within academic medicine, as well as to identify which factors primarily mediate gender differences in these outcomes. In this way, this study will illuminate the key elements of academic success for men and for women, including revealing which elements are common and which are unique, allowing for the informed design of targeted interventions to improve gender equity in academic medicine.

项目摘要/摘要这项研究旨在了解初级医师研究人员和女性的障碍特别是为了为改善学术医学中的性别平等而努力。尽管有在过去的四十年中，妇女参与医学界的急剧增加，在学术医学的高级职位上，妇女仍然是少数派。有些有由于性别差异而在余额上的性别差异所致，因此驳回了这些差异在工作与其他追求之间或研究与临床活动之间。拟议的工作专注于非常恰当，以研究为导向的初级教师的极其选择性的队列： K08和K23的医师录取者指导了NIH的职业发展奖。这样做，它最小货币支持，允许隔离其他挑战和障碍的影响。在初步研究，我们发现女性K08和K23获奖者的可能性大大降低获得后来的独立R01赠款，而不是男性同事。在此应用程序中，我们提出一项混合方法和跨学科研究，以阐明这种差异的存在。具体而言，为了确定学术成功的关键要素，并调查和促进在这些高度积极进取和有成就的医师研究人员中，我们提出了一个三相研究。在第一阶段，我们将对整个人口的大规模调查为了评估性别，1425年的医生从2005年至2008年获得NIH 获得关键资源的访问差异，例如受保护的研究时间和指导。我们将然后继续对120个相关利益相关者的访谈进行定性分析，包括 60前K08和K23接收者及其导师。最后，我们将对 1425医师在2005 - 2008年获得K08和K23奖项，以确定哪些资源，个人和机构特征与学术成功有关，包括出版，获得独立资金，满意度，促进和保留学术界医学以及确定哪些因素主要介导这些结果中的性别差异。这样，这项研究将阐明男性和女性学术成就的关键要素，包括揭示哪些元素是常见的，哪些元素是独一无二的，允许知情设计有针对性的干预措施以改善学术医学中的性别平等。