Assessing perceived effectiveness of career development efforts led by the women in American Medical Informatics Association Initiative.

Autor:	Wei DH; Computer Science Department, School of Business, Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, USA., Kukhareva PV; Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA., Tao D; Information Service, Medical Center Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA., Sordo M; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Pandita D; Department of Medicine, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA., Dua P; Health Informatics and Information Management, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, USA., Banerjee I; Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic and SCAI, Arizona State University, Arizona, USA., Abraham J; Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA [J Am Med Inform Assoc] 2022 Aug 16; Vol. 29 (9), pp. 1593-1606.
DOI:	10.1093/jamia/ocac101
Abstrakt:	Objective: We sought to ascertain perceived factors affecting women's career development efforts in the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and to provide recommendations for improvements. Materials and Methods: Data were collected using a 27-item survey administered via the AMIA newsletter and other social channels. Survey questions comprised 3 demographics, 15 Likert-scale, and 9 open-ended items. Likert-scale responses were summarized across respondent ages, career stages, and career domains, and open-ended responses were thematically analyzed. Results: We received survey responses from 109 AMIA women members. Our findings demonstrate that AMIA had made strides in promoting career development, and the most effective AMIA efforts included social events (83%), panel discussions (80%), and scientific sessions (79%). However, despite these efforts, women members perceived that gender-specific challenges persisted within AMIA, and recognized the need for increased networking opportunities (96%), raising awareness of gender-specific challenges (95%), and encouraging gender proportional representation in leadership (92%). Discussion: International and national biomedical informatics professional communities have put forth efforts to address gender-specific issues in career development. Yet, our study identified that some of these, including the deep-rooted gender power hierarchy and bias, are still perceived as profound in AMIA. Conclusion: Even though existing career development efforts for women are highly effective, important perceived gender-specific career development issues require further attention and investigation to improve existing AMIA activities. (© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Medical Informatics Association. All rights reserved. For permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.)
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