For the past 25 years, women have steadily outnumbered men in US medical schools. Yet, when you look at who holds the top leadership posts in our hospitals, health systems, and medical organizations, the story changes. It’s time for the medical community to face a truth hiding in plain sight: Women physicians are leading in transformative ways, even as they’re consistently overlooked by traditional metrics of leadership and reward.

New research from the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Robert Graham Center highlights this disconnect. We spoke with early-career women physicians across the country, and their stories were strikingly consistent. Formal leadership positions often are defined in narrow, bureaucratic terms that don’t resonate with them. 

Read more at: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/female-family-physicians-time-change-leadership-paradigm-2025a1000w5d?form=fpf