With more women entering medicine, residents who become pregnant during their training are becoming more common. Find out what kind of issues can arise from these situations, which can affect the mother, baby, and colleagues:
Some female residents, she was surprised to find, were not as supportive. “There was a perception that I wasn’t as dedicated,” said Walsh, who co-authored the women surgeons group’s manual for residents. “They just seemed to have trouble with the fact that I needed to put my child first. In their life, residency came first.”
The excellent Mothers in Medicine blog chronicles the stories of physician mothers.
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I’m going to go ahead and say something neanderthal because it is the elephant in the room: To the extent that we prioritize things over residency, our commitment to it IS reduced.
Rather than trying to obscure this fact, Walsh and others would be more convincing if they simply argued that is perhaps neither healthy nor productive to have physicians obsessively dedicated to the hospital to the detriment of their personal development.
Think about the ‘best’ leaders and instructors on the wards. Maybe surgery is different, but just about everywhere else the rock stars are the people who bring something from OUTSIDE the hospital in with them (knowledge, passions, etc) not the work-a-holics on their 3rd marriage.
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