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Penn
Medicine Benchmark Data
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Current
Annual Report
2005
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Since
1999, FOCUS has compiled an annual report, Benchmark Data: Gender
Statistics of Faculty, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
The report depicts the gender distribution
of Penn medical faculty by rank, track, and department. The
gender distribution of senior leadership positions and women's
inclusion on key committees is also reported, as well as hiring,
promotion and attrition data. Data are drawn from the annual,
end-of-year gender and minority report supplied by the Office
of Faculty Affairs in the School
of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Benchmark Data
also compares University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine statistics
with those compiled by the the
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in its annual
publication, Women
in U.S. Academic Medicine — Statistics and Medical School
Benchmarking.
The FOCUS annual report is presented annually to Department Chairs and
senior leadership.
Twenty
years ago, women accounted for 34% of new entrants to medical
schools, and they now represent essentially 50% of new entrants
(1). Yet, national data indicate that women in academic
medicine
are less likely to attain promotion and tenure than their male
colleagues; are under-represented in leadership positions; and, are
significantly over-represented in junior faculty ranks (2). (see Graph-1, Graph-2)
"Pipeline"
and cohort studies have shown that the slow advancement of
women in medical academia is not due to lack of women in the pipeline
over the past 25 years. Rather, other factors function as
barriers for women faculty. These issues must be identified
and addressed if academic medicine is to benefit from the large pool of
talented women that now make up half of all medical students.
As
of 2006, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine data indicate
that Penn is making progress in the promotion and hiring of women
faculty, although there is clearly much work to be done so that all
faculty can reach their full potential. (see Graph-3)
References:
- Association
of American Medical Colleges. Women
in
US
Academic Medicine: Statistics and Medical School Benchmarking 2005-6.
- Bickel J., Wara D., Atkinson B.F., et
al.
Increasing women's leadership in academic medicine: Report of the AAMC
project implementation committee. Acad Med. 2002:
77:1043-61.
For
additional information, e-mail Patricia Scott,
Director
of Operations, FOCUS on Health &
Leadership for Women
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