Citation

Bates CK, Jagsi R, Gordon LK, Travis E, Chatterjee A, Gillis M, Means O, Chaudron L, Ganetzky R, Gulati M, Fivush B, Sharma P, Grover A, Lautenberger D, Flotte TR. Acad. Med. 2018; 93(2): 163-165.

Affiliation

Dr. Bates is associate dean for faculty affairs and associate professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Jagsi is professor and deputy chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Dr. Gordon is senior associate dean, Diversity Affairs, and professor of ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California. Dr. Travis is associate vice president, Women and Minority Faculty Inclusion, and professor, Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Dr. Chatterjee is professor and chair, Department of Pediatrics, and senior associate dean for faculty development, University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Dr. Gillis is professor, chief of division, and director of faculty advancement, Department of Humanities, Health, and Society, Herbert Wertheim,. College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida. Olivia Means is a medical student at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, Alabama Dr. Chaudron is professor of psychiatry, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology and associate vice president and senior associate dean for inclusion and culture development at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York. Dr. Ganetzky is an attending physician in the Mitochondrial Disease Clinical Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Gulati is professor of medicine and chief of cardiology, University of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Fivush is associate dean for women in science and medicine and professor of pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Sharma is professor and chair, Department of Pathology, Creighton University School of Medicine and CHI Health, Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Grover is associate professor of surgery, Surgical Oncology, VCU Health, Richmond, Virginia. Diana Lautenberger is director, Women in Medicine and Science, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC. Dr. Flotte is Dean of the School of Medicine, Provost and Executive Deputy Chancellor, and The Celia and Isaac Haidak Professor of Medical Education, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Association of American Medical Colleges, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/ACM.0000000000002050

PMID

29116986

Abstract

While there are more women in leadership positions in academic medicine now than ever before in our history, evidence from recent surveys of women and from graduating medical students demonstrates that sexual harassment continues in our institutions. Our ability to change the culture is hampered by fear of reporting episodes of harassment, which is largely due to fear of retaliation. We describe some efforts in scientific societies that are addressing this and working to establish safe environments at national meetings. We must also work at the level of each institution to make it safe for individuals to come forward, to provide training for victims and for bystanders, and to abolish "locker room" talk that is demeaning to women.

Language: en