Today's #GenderInMedicine paper is another #QualitativeResearch psper looking at residents in the US and their expereince of resus team leadership through the ens of gender: 'Afraid of being Witchy with a B'

25 residents (16 female) participated in semi structured interviews with investigators exploring what the ideal resus team leader may look like, and how they expereinced leading resus teams

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24979289/

Today’s #GenderInMedicine paper is about ward rounds; whose voices are heard, whose ideas drive decision making
This ethnographic study from 2004 examines the nursing role in clinical decision making on rounds

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.02984.x

“Medical hegemony continues to render nurses unable to influence substantially the decision-making process”

As a profession medicine traditionally venerates masculine bahviours - how much has changed in 18 years?

Anyone who has ever followed me on Twitter will know I am forever banging on about #GenderInMedicine - and you can expect more of the same on #MedMastodon!

I’m going to share a series of my fave papers over the next wee while starting with this one, “Towards Gender Equity in Critical Care Medicine”, a fantastic piece of #QualitativeResearch and a fascinating read (if you can, dig into the supplementary files and read some of the data extracts)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30855331/