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Female Doctors in Canada
Experience and Culture
Earle Waugh (Edited by), Shirley Schipper (Edited by), Shelley Ross (Edited by)
9781487523220
Paperback / softback, published 30 January 2019
304 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.46 kg
Female Doctors in Canada is an accessible collection of articles by experienced physicians and researchers exploring how systems, practices, and individuals must change as medicine becomes an increasingly female-dominated profession. As the ratio of practicing physicians shifts from predominately male to predominately female, issues such as work hours, caregiving, and doctor-patient relationships will all be affected. Canada's medical education is based on a system that has always been designed by and for men; this is also true of our healthcare systems, influencing how women practice, what type of medicine they choose to practice, and how they wish to balance their personal lives with their work. With the intent to open a larger conversation, Female Doctors in Canada reconsiders medical education, health systems, and expectations, in light of the changing face of medicine. Highlighting the particular experience of women working in the medical profession, the editors trace the history of female practitioners, while also providing a perspective on the contemporary struggles women face as they navigate a system that was tailored to the male experience, and is yet to be modified.
Preface: Why a Book about Female Doctors? Section One. Introductory Perspectives: Female Doctors in Canada Section Two. Navigating the Reality of Becoming and Being a Female Physician in a Traditionally Male Profession: Social and Cultural Issues Section Three. Career Experience: Examining Cultural Patterns within the Medical Community and Health Care System Section Four. Contemporary Perspectives on Women in Medicine Section Five. Female Doctors in Canada: Futures Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. The Feminization of Medicine: Issues and Implications
SHELLEY ROSS
2. "Unsex Me Here!" Gender as a Barrier to Female Practice: A Historical Introduction to Women Doctors in Canada
Professionalization in Canada – An Annotated Timeline
HEATHER STANLEY
3. Cultural Barriers within Medicine
SETORME TSIKATA
4. Current State of Women in Medicine: The Statistics
DEENA M. HAMZA AND SHELLEY ROSS
5. Gendered Experience, Role Models and Mentorship, Leadership, and the Hidden Curriculum
CHERI BETHUNE
6. Female International Medical Graduates in Canada
INGE SCHABORT
7. Career Trajectory of Women in Medicine: Taming the Winds That Blow Us
KATHLEEN GARTKE AND JANET DOLLIN
8. Quality of Life/Life-Work Balance
SHELLEY ROSS
9. Women Physicians as Ethical Decision Makers
ERIN FREDERICKS
10. Women Physicians and New Forms of Medicine
MONICA OLSEN, MAMTA GAUTAM, AND GILLIAN KERNAGHAN
11. Patients, Women Family Doctors, and Patient-Centred Care
PERLE FELDMAN
12. Female Doctors in Canada: The Way Forward
EARLE WAUGH, SHELLEY ROSS, AND SHIRLEY SCHIPPER