Residents’ Perspective on the Faculty Hiring Process

Improving the recruitment and hiring process for women faculty.

A T u c w m s ( C r t i r a f “ n the past decade, the number of women medical students as equaled or exceeded the number of men. Despite this rowth, women continue to be persistently and substanially underrepresented in academic medicine. Although omen are more likely than men to pursue an academic areer, they are still underrepresented, constituting fewer han one-third of all physicians holdi...

The Pedagogical Colloquium: Taking Teaching Seriously in the Faculty Hiring Process

Hiring pediatric hospitalists: the process matters.

Over the past 10 years, hospitals across the United States have increasingly adopted a hospitalist model of care.1 The fi eld of pediatric hospital medicine is now the fastest growing pediatric specialty, with ~3000 pediatric hospitalists currently practicing in the United States.2 Most programs are young and expanding. A survey of 112 pediatric hospitalist leaders by Freed et al3 in 2007 found...

Systematic inequality and hierarchy in faculty hiring networks

The faculty job market plays a fundamental role in shaping research priorities, educational outcomes, and career trajectories among scientists and institutions. However, a quantitative understanding of faculty hiring as a system is lacking. Using a simple technique to extract the institutional prestige ranking that best explains an observed faculty hiring network-who hires whose graduates as fa...

Are We There Yet? Biases in Hiring Women Faculty Candidates.

T here's quite a debate in the popular press right now on the topic of how women are faring in the academic STEM fields. On one hand, we have a Nobel Laureate unapologetically calling for single sex laboratories 1 because " girls " distract male scientists, and on the other hand, we have a group of human ecology researchers claiming a significant hiring preference for women over men in STEM fac...