Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, New York.
Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
West J Emerg Med. 2022 Sep 12;23(5):660-671. doi: 10.5811/westjem.2022.6.56608.
To address persistent gender inequities in academic medicine, women professional development groups (PDG) have been developed to support the advancement of women in medicine. While these programs have shown promising outcomes, long-term evaluative metrics do not currently exist. The objective of this study was to establish metrics to assess women's PDGs.
This was a modified Delphi study that included an expert panel of current and past emergency department (ED) chairs and Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) presidents. The panel completed three iterative surveys to develop and rank metrics to assess women PDGs. Metrics established by the expert panel were also distributed for member-checking to women EM faculty.
The expert panel ranked 11 metrics with high to moderate consensus ranking with three metrics receiving greater than 90% consensus: gender equity strategy and plan; recruitment; and compensation. Members ranked 12 metrics with high consensus with three metrics receiving greater than 90% consensus: gender equity strategy and plan; compensation; and gender equity in promotion rates among faculty. Participants emphasized that departments should be responsible for leading gender equity efforts with PDGs providing a supportive role.
In this study, we identified metrics that can be used to assess academic EDs' gender equity initiatives and the advisory efforts of a departmental women's PDG. These metrics can be tailored to individual departmental/institutional needs, as well as to a PDG's mission. Importantly, PDGs can use metrics to develop and assess programming, acknowledging that many metrics are the responsibility of the department rather than the PDG.
为了解决学术医学中持续存在的性别不平等问题，已经成立了女性专业发展团体（PDG），以支持女性在医学领域的发展。虽然这些项目已经显示出了有希望的结果，但目前还没有长期的评估指标。本研究的目的是建立评估女性 PDG 的指标。
这是一项修改后的德尔菲研究，包括现任和前任急诊部（ED）主席以及学术女性急诊医学协会（AWAEM）主席的专家小组。该小组完成了三轮迭代调查，以制定和排名评估女性 PDG 的指标。专家小组确定的指标也分发给女性急诊医学教员进行成员核对。
专家小组以高到中度共识对 11 项指标进行了排名，其中三项指标获得了超过 90%的共识：性别平等策略和计划；招聘；和薪酬。成员以高共识对 12 项指标进行了排名，其中三项指标获得了超过 90%的共识：性别平等策略和计划；薪酬；和促进女性教职员工晋升的性别平等。参与者强调，部门应该负责领导性别平等工作，PDG 提供支持作用。
在这项研究中，我们确定了可以用来评估学术 ED 性别平等倡议和部门妇女 PDG 咨询工作的指标。这些指标可以根据部门/机构的需求以及 PDG 的使命进行定制。重要的是，PDG 可以使用指标来制定和评估项目，承认许多指标是部门的责任，而不是 PDG 的责任。
