{"pk":16619,"title":"WOMen profEssioNal developmenT oUtcome Metrics in Academic Emergency Medicine: Results from the WOMENTUM Modified Delphi Study","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Introduction: \nTo address persistent gender inequities in academic medicine, women professional development groups (PDG) have been developed to support the advancement of women in medicine. While these programs have shown promising outcomes, long-term evaluative metrics do not currently exist. The objective of this study was to establish metrics to assess women’s PDGs. \nMethods:\n This was a modified Delphi study that included an expert panel of current and past emergency department (ED) chairs and Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) presidents. The panel completed three iterative surveys to develop and rank metrics to assess women PDGs. Metrics established by the expert panel were also distributed for member-checking to women EM faculty. \nResults:\n The expert panel ranked 11 metrics with high to moderate consensus ranking with three metrics receiving greater than 90% consensus: gender equity strategy and plan; recruitment; and compensation. Members ranked 12 metrics with high consensus with three metrics receiving greater than 90% consensus: gender equity strategy and plan; compensation; and gender equity in promotion rates among faculty. Participants emphasized that departments should be responsible for leading gender equity efforts with PDGs providing a supportive role. \nConclusion: \nIn this study, we identified metrics that can be used to assess academic EDs’ gender equity initiatives and the advisory efforts of a departmental women’s PDG. These metrics can be tailored to individual departmental/institutional needs, as well as to a PDG’s mission. Importantly, PDGs can use metrics to develop and assess programming, acknowledging that many metrics are the responsibility of the department rather than the PDG.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"gender equity, women in medicine, Delphi methodology"}],"section":"Health Equity","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4qm33663","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jennifer","middle_name":"S.","last_name":"Love","name_suffix":"","institution":"Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, New York","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Amy","middle_name":"J.","last_name":"Zeidan","name_suffix":"","institution":"Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Utsha","middle_name":"G.","last_name":"Khatri","name_suffix":"","institution":"Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, New York; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Population Health Science and Policy, New York, New York","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Margaret","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Samuels-Kalow","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Angela","middle_name":"M.","last_name":"Mills","name_suffix":"","institution":"Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Emergency Medicine, New York, New York","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Cindy","middle_name":"H.","last_name":"Hsu","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Emergency Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2022-03-02T19:08:25Z","date_accepted":"2022-03-02T19:08:25Z","date_published":"2022-09-13T02:08:23Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/16619/galley/8408/download/"}]}