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Part-time option retains female physicians.(NEWSWATCH)

Women in Higher Education

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Unless medical schools and teaching hospitals create more part-time schedules, women will continue to drop out of academic medical careers, according to a series of articles in the January issue of Academic Medicine.

Many women shy away from academic medicine due to the demand of juggling family with a full-time career. Part-time physicians often like their jobs more, are more productive and are as well-liked by patients ...

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