Monday, March 5, 2018

Bias in Residency Evaluations

There's a scary, but important, recent article in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education by Mueller et al called "Gender Differences in Attending Physicians' Feedback to Residents: A Qualitative Analysis." As you might have guessed, male and female residents were given - on average - very different types of evaluations from faculty. Here's a link to the study and a podcast with an interview of the physician-authors.