Creating Family-Friendly Learning Environments: Parental Leave and Other Policies in GME

Joining editor-in-chief David Sklar and senior staff editor Toni Gallo (@AcadMedJournal) to discuss their personal experiences with parental leave and other policies that can help create more family-friendly training environments for physicians are recent and current residents Ariel Sklar, Alli Webb, and Michael Maguire. Guests also discuss the graduate medical education learning environment and the implications of these issues for trainees and their institutions. This episode is now available through iTunes, the Apple Podcast app, and SoundCloud. Read more about this topic, including the report by Blair and colleagues and Dr. Sklar’s editorial, which are discussed in this episode, at academicmedicine.org. A transcript of this episode is available upon request from academicmedicine@aamc.org. Further Reading Blair J, Mayer A, Caubet S, Norby S, O’Connor MI, Hayes SN. Pregnancy and parental leave during graduate medical education. Acad Med. 2016;91:972-978. Sklar DP. How can we create a more family-friendly, healthful environment for our future health professionals? Acad Med. 2018;93: 1595-1598.
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