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Empowering Women as Leaders in Pediatric Anesthesiology: Methodology, Lessons, and Early Outcomes of a National Initiative.
Schwartz, Jamie McElrath; Markowitz, Scott D; Yanofsky, Samuel D; Tackett, Sean; Berenstain, Laura K; Schwartz, Lawrence I; Flick, Randall; Heitmiller, Eugenie; Fiadjoe, John; Lee, Helen H; Honkanen, Anita; Malviya, Shobha; Cladis, Franklyn P; Lee, Jennifer K; Deutsch, Nina.
  • Schwartz JM; From the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Markowitz SD; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
  • Yanofsky SD; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
  • Tackett S; Department of Medicine, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Data Management Core, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Berenstain LK; Department of Anesthesiology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Schwartz LI; Department of Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital Colorado/University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado.
  • Flick R; Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic Children's Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
  • Heitmiller E; Division of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Children's National Hospital, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC.
  • Fiadjoe J; Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Lee HH; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
  • Honkanen A; Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
  • Malviya S; Department of Anesthesiology, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
  • Cladis FP; The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  • Lee JK; From the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
  • Deutsch N; Division of Anesthesiology, Pain and Perioperative Medicine, Children's National Hospital, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC.
Anesth Analg ; 133(6): 1497-1509, 2021 12 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1607763
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Research has shown that women have leadership ability equal to or better than that of their male counterparts, yet proportionally fewer women than men achieve leadership positions and promotion in medicine. The Women's Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI) was founded within the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) in 2018 as a multidimensional program to help address the significant career development, leadership, and promotion gender gap between men and women in anesthesiology. Herein, we describe WELI's development and implementation with an early assessment of effectiveness at 2 years. Members received an anonymous, voluntary survey by e-mail to assess whether they believed WELI was beneficial in several broad domains career development, networking, project implementation and completion, goal setting, mentorship, well-being, and promotion and leadership. The response rate was 60.5% (92 of 152). The majority ranked several aspects of WELI to be very or extremely valuable, including the protégé-advisor dyads, workshops, nomination to join WELI, and virtual facilitated networking. For most members, WELI helped to improve optimism about their professional future. Most also reported that WELI somewhat or absolutely contributed to project improvement or completion, finding new collaborators, and obtaining invitations to be visiting speakers. Among those who applied for promotion or leadership positions, 51% found WELI to be somewhat or absolutely valuable to their application process, and 42% found the same in applying for leadership positions. Qualitative analysis of free-text survey responses identified 5 main themes (1) feelings of empowerment and confidence, (2) acquisition of new skills in mentoring, coaching, career development, and project implementation, (3) clarification and focus on goal setting, (4) creating meaningful connections through networking, and (5) challenges from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the inability to sustain the advisor-protégé connection. We conclude that after 2 years, the WELI program has successfully supported career development for the majority of protégés and advisors. Continued assessment of whether WELI can meaningfully contribute to attainment of promotion and leadership positions will require study across a longer period. WELI could serve as a programmatic example to support women's career development in other subspecialties.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Physicians, Women / Women, Working / Sexism / Anesthesiologists / Pediatricians / Empowerment / Gender Equity / Leadership Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study / Qualitative research / Randomized controlled trials Limits: Female / Humans / Male Language: English Journal: Anesth Analg Year: 2021 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Physicians, Women / Women, Working / Sexism / Anesthesiologists / Pediatricians / Empowerment / Gender Equity / Leadership Type of study: Observational study / Prognostic study / Qualitative research / Randomized controlled trials Limits: Female / Humans / Male Language: English Journal: Anesth Analg Year: 2021 Document Type: Article