Mitigating delayed academic promotion of female radiologists due to the COVID pandemic

Academic Productivity of Equity-Deserving Physician Scholars During COVID-19: A Scoping Review

“…Thirty of the 44 articles (68%) outlined recommendations related to mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on physicians’ scholarly activity. 26,39–41,43,46,47,49–54,57,59,60,62,64,65,67–73,78–81 Overall, recommendations were broadly targeted to 3 institutions: academic health centers, funding and award agencies, and peer-reviewed journal editors. We identified 17 overarching recommendation areas (Table 2).…”

“…Of the 44 articles selected for extraction, 22 (50%) focused on academic medicine in general rather than on a specific medical area 26,39,43,44,46,50,52–54,56–60,63,68,70,71,75,78–80 ; the remaining publications focused on cardiology (n = 4, 9%), 42,69,72,74 radiology (n = 4, 9%), 61,64,66,73 emergency medicine (n = 2, 5%), 41,55 hematology or transfusion medicine (2, 5%), 40,47 ophthalmology (n = 2, 5%), 48,62 oncology (n = 2, 5%), 45,49 psychiatry (n = 1, 3%), 67 obstetrics and gynecology (n = 1, 3%), 81 osteopathic medicine (n = 1, 3%), 77 pediatrics (n = 1, 3%), 76 surgery (n = 1, 3%), 51 and urology (n = 1, 3%). 65 Articles were divided into 2 broad categories: nonempirical articles that did not collect or analyze primary or secondary data (n = 15, 34%) 26,48–50,54,59,60,68–70,72,73,77,79,80 and empirical articles that collected and/or analyzed data (n = 29; 66%). 39–47,51–53,55–58,61–67,71,74–76,78,81…”

“…After the removal of 3,301 duplicates, we screened the remaining 8,286 papers, advancing 142 to full-text review. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 44 of the 142 articles were selected for extraction 26,39–81 Figure 1 provides a diagram outlining the PRISMA results flowchart.…”

“…45,46,48,51,52,[57][58][59]62,64,[68][69][70][71] For example, the task of organizing childcare (emergency or otherwise) usually falls to mothers more than fathers, and the ability to "outsource" these activities during the pandemic was no longer available. 64,73 The pandemic and the ramifications of school and childcare closures had the potential to magnify these preexisting gender differences in home and childcare, negatively impacting academic productivity. Ten of the 11 articles specifically focused on the pressures for early-career women physicians, including the stress of caring for children and/ or elderly or sick relatives during the pandemic.…”

“…Thirty of the 44 articles (68%) outlined recommendations related to mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on physicians' scholarly activity. 26,[39][40][41]43,46,47,[49][50][51][52][53][54]57,59,60,62,64,65,[67][68][69][70][71][72][73][78][79][80][81] While the majority of recommendations pertained to cisgender women and mothers, 5 papers discussed the concept of intersecting identities or intersectionality. 50,68,72,77,78 For example, Shamseer et al 68 recommended adopting an "intersectional lens" to identify and explore which populations are experiencing inequities during the pandemic and at which moments of time.…”