Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington DC.
J Surg Educ. 2024 May;81(5):617-619. doi: 10.1016/j.jsurg.2024.02.007. Epub 2024 Mar 28.
Medical school, residency, and fellowship occur during peak reproductive years for most trainees. This poses certain challenges for medical trainees as they approach family-building decisions. While the demands of residency have been well-elucidated, attempts at mitigating these demands alongside parenthood have long been neglected across various specialties. These challenges are perhaps most pronounced in Obstetrics and Gynecology residency programs, which are made-up of an 85% female-identifying workforce and whose training focuses on prenatal and postpartum health. Recent literature suggests an improvement in attitudes and policies towards parental leave during medical graduate education, however, there remains a lack of uniformity across specialties and programs. Through a recently developed Parental Leave Task Force made up of Obstetrics and Gynecology Trainees, we sought to conduct a review of the literature examining parental leave policies and their implications across various specialties as a call for uniform parental leave policies for all residents.
医学院、住院医师培训和专科医师培训都发生在大多数受训者的生育高峰期。这给医学受训者带来了一定的挑战，因为他们即将做出组建家庭的决定。尽管住院医师培训的要求已经得到了充分的阐述，但长期以来，在各个专业领域，人们一直忽视了减轻这些要求与为人父母之间的矛盾。这些挑战在妇产科住院医师培训项目中表现得最为明显，该项目的员工中有 85%是女性，其培训重点是产前和产后健康。最近的文献表明，在医学研究生教育中，人们对育儿假的态度和政策有所改善，然而，不同专业和项目之间仍然缺乏统一性。通过最近成立的一个由妇产科受训者组成的育儿假特别工作组，我们旨在对文献进行回顾，研究各种专业的育儿假政策及其影响，呼吁为所有住院医师制定统一的育儿假政策。
