Today's #GenderInMedicine paper is another #QualitativeResearch psper looking at residents in the US and their expereince of resus team leadership through the ens of gender: 'Afraid of being Witchy with a B'
25 residents (16 female) participated in semi structured interviews with investigators exploring what the ideal resus team leader may look like, and how they expereinced leading resus teams
Ideal code leadership embodies highly agentic, stereotypical male behaviors. Female residents employed strategies to better integrate the competing identities of code leader and female gender. In the future, residency training should acknowledge how female gender stereotypes may conflict with the be …
Today’s #GenderInMedicine paper is about ward rounds; whose voices are heard, whose ideas drive decision making
This ethnographic study from 2004 examines the nursing role in clinical decision making on rounds
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.02984.x
“Medical hegemony continues to render nurses unable to influence substantially the decision-making process”
As a profession medicine traditionally venerates masculine bahviours - how much has changed in 18 years?
Anyone who has ever followed me on Twitter will know I am forever banging on about #GenderInMedicine - and you can expect more of the same on #MedMastodon!
I’m going to share a series of my fave papers over the next wee while starting with this one, “Towards Gender Equity in Critical Care Medicine”, a fantastic piece of #QualitativeResearch and a fascinating read (if you can, dig into the supplementary files and read some of the data extracts)
Participants identified a gender gap in critical care medicine and provided important insight into the impact for personal, professional, and group dynamics. Recommended improvement strategies are feasible, map broadly onto reported drivers and implications, and are applicable to critical care medic …
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