Tham khảo tài liệu 'pursuing excellence in healthcare_9', kinh doanh - tiếp thị, quản trị kinh doanh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 170 Pursuing Excellence in Healthcare their patients spend less time on paperwork and office management and have adequate numbers of colleagues in order to establish reasonable call schedules. These efforts will not only improve the morale of AMC physicians but will also help them focus on the core mission of providing excellence in care. Create an AMC Culture That Recognizes the Diverse Needs and Goals of Women Physicians AMCs must recognize that their promotion and work policies were designed at a time when most physicians were men and most wives stayed home and raised the children. As pointed out by Dr. Julia Draznin in her article The Mommy Tenure Track the common conundrum faced by a woman physician in particular a woman physician-scientist who has the curiosity determination and desire to challenge herself professionally is that at the same time she is yearning for a calm and tender life with her family 38 . This is supported by findings from a study of female graduates of Yale Medical School 83 of all female graduates over the age of 40 were mothers and 42 of them had their children during their training 39 . In order to provide better opportunities for women in academic medicine institutions must develop a menu of new opportunities recognizing that each family may choose a different pathway toward the same career goal. In 1983 70 of the 95 medical schools with fixed probationary periods the time period when young faculty members needed to demonstrate productivity in order to reach promotion and to retain their positions had probationary lengths of 7 or less years. At the same time young faculty members were having children. Thus novel changes including lengthening the pretenure probationary period offering clock-stopping policies during child-rearing periods and creating new appointment tracks could obviate the stress arising from conflicts between child-rearing and professional activities. Although nearly 70 of . medical schools provide the opportunity
