Lawand Jad, Mazhar Leena, Rauf Ali, Ding Jeffrey, Siddiqi Javed, Tiwana Sabeen, Virji-Babul Naznin, Khosa Faisal
University of Texas Medical Branch John Sealy School of Medicine, Galveston, Texas, USA.
Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
PM R. 2025 Mar;17(3):319-329. doi: 10.1002/pmrj.13291. Epub 2024 Dec 24.
This study describes the gender and racial/ethnic trends in academic physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) and the shifts that have taken place in more than 4 decades.
To gauge the diversity in gender and race/ethnicity across academic degrees, academic ranks, chair positions, and tenure status in the academic workforce of PM&R.
Surveillance study.
The data for academic PM&R faculty were self-reported and obtained from the annual Faculty Roster report of the Association of American Medical Colleges from 1977 to 2021.
To compare the distribution of academic degree, rank, chair position, and tenure status over time, the percentage composition for each category was calculated for a period of 45 years. The temporal trends were depicted by plotting the counts and proportion changes, and the progress in terms of racial representation was illustrated by graphing the absolute changes in the percentage composition.
Despite an overall increase in the representation of women, women remained underrepresented in the full professor rank in 2021, at only 32.1% of full professors. The instructor category was the only category in which the proportion of women faculty was higher in 2021 (62.8%) than in 1977 (58.5%). Asian faculty had the greatest increase in representation at all ranks, with the proportion of Asian full professors increasing from 1.8% to 11.4%, associate professors increasing from 7.4% to 14.4%, and assistant professors increasing from 11.2% to 20.2%. Women's representation as department chairs increased from 12.5% to 23.7% and Asians from 2.5% to 15.3%.
Overall, although there was an increase in the number of women and underrepresented minority faculty in academic PM&R over the study period, disparities based on gender and ethnicity/race persisted, particularly in higher academic ranks and leadership positions.
本研究描述了学术性物理医学与康复（PM&R）领域的性别和种族/族裔趋势以及在40多年里所发生的变化。
评估PM&R学术人员队伍中学位、学术职级、系主任职位和终身教职状况方面的性别和种族/族裔多样性。
监测研究。
学术性PM&R教员的数据为自我报告数据，取自1977年至2021年美国医学院协会的年度教员名册报告。
为比较不同时期学位、职级、系主任职位和终身教职状况的分布情况，计算了45年期间每个类别的百分比构成。通过绘制计数和比例变化来描述时间趋势，并通过绘制百分比构成的绝对变化来展示种族代表性方面的进展。
尽管女性的代表性总体有所增加，但在2021年正教授职级中女性的占比仍然较低，仅占正教授的32.1%。教员类别是2021年女性教员比例（62.8%）高于1977年（58.5%）的唯一类别。亚洲教员在各级别的代表性增加幅度最大，正教授中亚洲人的比例从1.8%增至11.4%，副教授从7.4%增至14.4%，助理教授从11.2%增至20.2%。担任系主任的女性比例从12.5%增至23.7%，亚洲人从2.5%增至15.3%。
总体而言，尽管在研究期间学术性PM&R领域中女性和代表性不足的少数族裔教员数量有所增加，但基于性别和种族/族裔的差异依然存在，尤其是在较高学术职级和领导职位方面。
