Doctors Are Leaving Academic Medicine. Most Of Them Are Women

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, those of us working in medicine have been challenged on many fronts. Still, there are more and more women entering medical school—most entering medical school classes are comprised of 50% or more women. However, few women are entering surgical specialties, and now a study shows that women are leaving academic medicine at higher rates than previously.

study published in this month’s JAMA Network Open looked at the rates of women leaving academic medical center positions in comparison to their male counterparts. The investigators, based at Harvard Medical School and the University of Massachusetts, assessed attrition rates of nearly 300,000 physicians in academic medicine between 2014 and 2019. Across all stages of academic careers, women were 25% more likely to leave academia than men.

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