Medical women: internet resource
July 2006
BMA resources
BMA cohort study of 1995 medical graduates – tenth report (2005)
Read more at - www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/cohort10threp
The tenth annual report on the 10-year study of medical graduates from 1995 provides information on workforce participation, career choice and views about practising medicine.
Career barriers in medicine: doctors’ experiences (2004)
Read more at - www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/CarBarDocExp
A report from the BMA’s equal opportunities committee looking at career barriers faced by doctors, including women doctors. The report explores how they are affected and provides insight into how this kind of discrimination manifests itself. Some key messages are highlighted about medical career barriers and how these have broad consequences for the medical profession as a whole.
The demography of medical schools: a discussion paper (2004)
Read more at - www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/DemographyMedSchls
This paper from the BMA’s Board of Medical Education examines the socio-economic background, age, ethnicity and gender of medical school applicants and students. It is intended to outline the current demography of medical schools and to highlight important questions for further discussion and research.
Encouraging women to work in academic medicine (2003)
Read more at - www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/WomenInAcademicMedicine
This document from the BMA’s medical academic staff committee is focused on engaging women with academic medicine. Women are severely under-represented as clinical researchers, full time academics and heads of departments, yet they are a growing proportion of the medical workforce. To promote women in academic medicine, there needs to be significant structural and cultural change.
Examining equality: a survey of royal college examinations (2006)
Read more at - www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/ExaminingEqualityPublic
This report examines equality and diversity in royal college examinations. It presents the survey results collected from individual royal colleges on their equal opportunities monitoring of examination candidates and examiners, and on the equality and diversity training provided to examiners. The section on gender looks at the prevalence of gender monitoring and as well as the representation of women on examiners’ panels compared to the consultant workforce.
New arrangements for flexible training (2005)
Read more at - www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/newflextraining
Outlines the current situation with regard to flexible training.
Further information about the BMA’s work on flexible training, including reports from the flexible training working party and forums can be found here: www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/Hubjuniorsflexibletraining
Women in academic medicine: challenges and issues (2004)
Read more at - www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/womenacademic
The BMA’s health policy and economic research unit held two focus groups in order to explore the challenges and issues facing women in academic medicine in some depth. This report summarises the key issues raised by participants.