Asian/Pacific Islander women in medical education: personal and professional challenges.
*Asian Americans; Career Choice; Cultural Diversity; Decision Making; Family; Female; Humans; Medical/*psychology; Students; Women/*psychology
PURPOSE: The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the complex issues facing Asian/Pacific Islander (API) women students at one Midwestern medical school as they subjectively experience their medical training. Of particular interest was how students navigated family influences, career planning, and ethnic and gender stereotypes. SUMMARY: Sixty-five percent of the students reported that their parents exerted various degrees of encouragement or pressure to enter medicine. The remaining students said that the decision was entirely theirs (20%) or that the decision had been made for them (15%). Many reported the larger Asian "community" as a source of influence. A slight majority of students thought they were perceived by faculty as being "quiet," often too quiet. With only 1 exception, all of the students believed that their cultural identity influenced their specialty choice. Stressors reported by students centered on competition, achievement, and formation of intimate relationships (i.e., dating). CONCLUSIONS: Medical educators who provide personal and professional support for API women students should be keenly aware of the career, gender, and family issues that emerge at the intersection of API and Euro-American cultures. Faculty development should include an educational component on issues of concern to API students, men and women. Faculty also need to wrestle with the cultural values of "modesty, respect for authority, public self-consciousness, and other directness" as they intersect with assertion as a primary value found in Euro-American culture in general and in medical education in particular.
Wear D
Teaching and learning in medicine
2000
2000
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1207/S15328015TLM1203_7" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1207/S15328015TLM1203_7</a>
Attitudes of female nurses and female residents toward each other: a qualitative study in one U.S. teaching hospital.
*Attitude of Health Personnel; *Internship and Residency; *Physician-Nurse Relations; Australia; Communication; Female; Focus Groups; Gender Identity; Hospitals; Humans; Male; Norway; Nurses/*psychology; Physicians; Sexual Behavior; Teaching; United States; Women/*psychology
PURPOSE: To describe the attitudes of female nurses and female resident physicians toward each other in surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics-gynecology, and emergency medicine in one Midwest teaching hospital in the United States. METHOD: Using a qualitative methodology, 51 women were interviewed in 2002: 28 nurses and 23 residents. Questions were asked to determine if and how female nurses and female residents believed gender was a factor in their interprofessional relationships, how each described their relationship with the other, the kind of assistance female nurses provide to female residents, the kind of assistance sought by female residents, and the strengths and challenges of the female nurse-female resident relationship. Data were analyzed using NUD*IST software. RESULTS: Consistent with similar studies conducted in Norway and Australia, the results include the following: For female nurses, occupation is secondary to gender, which is to say that gender is the most important link between female nurses and female residents. For female residents, gender is secondary to occupation/occupational status. CONCLUSIONS: With the number of female residents increasing each year in hospitals, this relationship should be further examined so that dysfunctional communication patterns between the two groups can be challenged.
Wear Delese; Keck-McNulty Cynthia
Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
2004
2004-04
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200404000-00004" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1097/00001888-200404000-00004</a>