Professional Development Focused, Peer-Reviewed
Enhancing Anesthesiology:
A Survey of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Residency Curricula
“Despite national recognition of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training in graduate medical education, the current landscape of DEI curricula across anesthesiology residencies is poorly understood. We surveyed anesthesiology residency programs to evaluate how DEI education is implemented and assessed…”
Faculty Onboarding for Workforce Readiness and Belonging
“A successful onboarding process is critical to the enculturation of new employees into an existing work environment. Organizations focusing on improving onboarding practices increase overall success, decrease attrition, and enhance member performance and satisfaction. In this study, we examine our onboarding practices and then create structured tools to improve our processes…”
Evaluating the Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative:
Supporting mentorship, career satisfaction, and well-being among pediatric anesthesiologists
“The Society for Pediatric Anesthesia launched the Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI) in 2018 to empower highly productive women pediatric anesthesiologists to achieve equity, promotion, and leadership. WELI is focused on six career development domains: promotion and leadership, networking, conceptualization and completion of projects, mentoring, career satisfaction, and sense of well-being…”
Empowering Women as Leaders in Pediatric Anesthesiology:
Methodology, Lessons, and Early Outcomes of a National Initiative
“Research has shown that women have leadership ability equal to or better than that of their male counterparts, yet proportionally fewer women than men achieve leadership positions and promotion in medicine. The Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Initiative (WELI) was founded within the Society for Pediatric Anesthesia (SPA) in 2018 as a multidimensional program to help address the significant career development, leadership, and promotion gender gap between men and women in anesthesiology…”