Women in Gastroenterology

In the News

New York Times
PNAS 2012 Moss Racusin
Science-2012-Mervis-1592

• Objectives
• Committee Members
• Resources
• Reading
• Upcoming Events
  

Objectives

Under the umbrella of the Division of Gastroenterology, we are committed to:

• Recruitment of women to the field of Gastroenterology
• Maintaining women faculty in Gastroenterology
• Career development
• Educating and encouraging research in women's health issues in Gastroenterology

The committee is comprised of faculty from different tracks, including MDs and PhDs, fellows, research staff/students, and ad-hoc non-GI faculty.

Committee Members

Kimberly Forde, MD, MHS, Assistant Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology, Division of Gastroenterology, Senior Scholar, CCEB Location: 9 Penn Tower Email:  kimberly.forde@uphs.upenn.edu Contact:  215.662.4301

Resources

University of Pennsylvania Resources

• Focus
  • www.med.upenn.edu/focus
• University of Pennsylvania Human Resources
  • www.hr.upenn.edu/policy
• Graduate Medical Education Policies
  • www.uphs.upenn.edu/gme/policies
• Wharton's Work/Life Integration Project
  • http://worklife.wharton.upenn.edu/newsroom/newsroom-2/

External Resources

• MomMD
  • www.mommd.com
• Changing the Face of Medicine:  Celebrating America's Women Physicians
  • www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine
• American Medical Women's Association
  • www.amwa-doc.org
• Association of American Medical Colleges, Women in Medicine
  • www.aamc.org/members/wim
• Society for Women's Health Research
  • www.womenshealthresearch.org
• ACG Women Committee Resources (need to be a memeber to access)
  • www.acg.gi.org
• AGA Career Advisory Program
  • www.gastro.org/wmspage
• Association for Women in Science
  • www.awis.org

Reading

Articles:

Women's Health:

• ACG, Pregnancy Monograph:  www.acg.gi.org/physicians/pdfs/PregnancyMonograph.pdf

Balancing Family and Work:

• Verlander G. Female Physicians.  Balancing Career and Family.  Academic Psychiatry; Dec 2004, (28): 331-336. [pdf]
• Carnes M. Balancing Family and Career - Advice from the Teachers.  Annals of Internal Medicine; Oct 1996, 125(7): 618-620. [pdf]
• Slaughter, AM. Why Women Still Can't Have It All.  The Atlantic. July/August 2012. [article] [previous lecture]

Avoiding Burnout:

• Spickard A, Gabbe SG, Christensen JF. Mid-Career Burnout in Generalist and Specialist Physicians. JAMA; Sept 25, 2002, 288(12): 1447-1450. [pdf]
• Sotile WM, Sotile MO.  Beyond Physician Burnout:  Keys to Effective Emotional Management.  Journal of Medical Practice management;  May-June 2003, 18(6): 314-318. [pdf]
• Robinson GE.  Stresses on Women Physicians. Consequences and Coping Techinques.  Depression and Anxiety;  2003, 17(3): 180-189. [pdf]
• Linzer M, Visser M, Oort FJ, et al.  Predicting and Preventing Physician Burnout:  Results from the United States and the Netherlands.  The American Journal of Medicine;  Aug 2001, 111(2): 170-175. [pdf]
• Gundersen L.  Physician Burnout.  Annals of Internal Medicine;  July 2001, 135(2): 145-148. [pdf]
• Burnout and Suicidal Ideation Amoung U.S. Medical Students.  Annals of Internal Medicine; Sept 2008, 149(5): 334-341. [pdf]

Women in Medicine, Science, Leadership and Equality in the Workplace:

• Untapped potential in the study of negotiation and gender inequality in organizations. Bowles and McGinn 2008. [pdf]
• NASPA Journal about women in higher education.  Compton and Palmer 2009 p167. [pdf]
• Women and the labyrinth of leadership.   Eagly 2007. [pdf]
• Resource highlights.  FINAL annotated contents. [pdf]
• The doctor-nurse relationship:  How easy is it to be a female doctore co-operating with a female nurse?  Gjerberga and Kjolsrod 2001. [pdf]
• Women and the vision thing.  Ibarra and Obodaru 2009. [pdf]
• Defining, navigating and negotiating success. Kalet et. al. 2006. [pdf]
• Negotiation in academic medicine.  A necessary career skill.  sarfaty et al 2007. [pdf]
• Who goes to the bargaining table?  The influence of gender and framing on the initiation of negotiation.  Small et. al. 2007. [pdf]
• Negotiating workplace equality:  A systemic approach.  Sturm 2009. [pdf]
• Negotiation.  thompson Wang and Gunia 2010. [pdf]
• Your Company Doesn't Need a Women's Network. [article]

Books:

Friedman SD.  Total Leadership, Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life.  Harvard Business Press. 2008.

Goldsmith, Marshall. Mojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back if You Lose It.  Hyperion. 2009. http://www.mojothebook.com

Kegan, Robert and Lahey, Lisa.  Immunity to Change: How to Overcome it and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization. Harvard Business Press. 2009.

Sandberg, Sheryl. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Knopf. 2013.

Upcoming Events