Search Tag: diversity
2025 30 May
The Inclusive Voices in Patient Organisations report by the Patient Inclusive Advocacy Foundation highlights leadership gaps in diversity and inclusion across eight countries. It identifies systemic barriers, shares successful practice and outlines a roadmap for embedding DEI in patient organisations. The report calls for urgent, sustained act1Read more
2025 30 May
The Inclusive Voices in Patient Organisations report by the Patient Inclusive Advocacy Foundation highlights leadership gaps in diversity and inclusion across eight countries. It identifies systemic barriers, shares successful practice and outlines a roadmap for embedding DEI in patient organisations. The report calls for urgent, sustained act1Read more
2025 26 May
At the Opening Ceremony of Euroanaesthesia 2025, ESAIC introduced the Mellin-Olsen Declaration on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Developed by a dedicated working group of ESAIC members, this declaration is both a call to action and a long-overdue promise. It responds to a reality many in anaesthesiology know well: that despite the field’s clini1Read more
2023 06 Oct
According to a recent study, radiology has made notable progress in increasing diversity relative to other medical specialties in the past decade. The team gathered the Graduate Medical Education results from 2010-2011 to 2020-2021 to access demographic information for major medical specialties. This way, the team could extract the racial 1Read more
2021 24 Aug
Looking at gender, bias and equality through the lens of the COVID-19 crisis and its potential for broad and lasting effects and addressing how this unprecedented situation can be a chance for interaction, learning and the development of best practices, such as developing work structures that could be continued in our post-pandemic future. 1Read more
2021 24 Aug
The devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women and communities of colour and the need for diversity among healthcare workers and public health leaders. Introduction D iversity is the condition of having many different elements. These may include people with different opinions, backgrounds (degrees and social experience), reli1Read more
2021 20 Jul
Fewer women hold biomedical patents, leading to a reduced number of patented technologies designed to address problems affecting women, say researchers from McGill University, Harvard Business School, and the Universidad de Navarra in Barcelona. Biases that limit the number of women in science and technology are well known, but the consequen1Read more
2021 19 Mar
An overview of the lack of representation of women and other minoritised populations in healthcare and their relative absence from positions of leadership and power. Key Points The World Health Organization reports that women are overrepresented in the healthcare workforce but are absent at senior levels. The abse1Read more
2020 24 Nov
Is the gender gap a concern for intensive care medicine (ICM)? ICM is not gender friendly by design and this could have a major impact on the discipline given the increase in the number of female doctors. What are the main barriers to career progression for women in ICM? Members of the iWIN Foundation present their views. S everal 1Read more
2020 08 Oct
POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 HEALTH CONCERNS FROM APRIL TO OCT 8-13TH Find ISMRM on Social Media Read more
2019 23 Jan
In a new study that examines the potential challenges and obstacles to female radiologists conducting research and publication of work, the American Association for Women Radiologists propose strategies to overcome these challenges. In the report published in Academic Radiology , researchers say that initiatives targeting the identified challen1Read more
2018 01 Jun
In March the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) ( esicm.org ) announced its Diversity Task Force (pictured), which will draft a policy paper and code of conduct related to gender, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, race, culture, socioeconomic status and multi professionalism. ESICM is the first major international medical 1Read more
2016 12 Dec
Inequalities persist in the workplace. In a healthcare setting, such disparities reduce access to care, keep minority workers in poverty, and reinforce the cycle of oppression. Industry experts think that HR policy reforms can set some of these wrongs to right. Acknowledge Wage Inequality According to a JAMA Internal Medici1Read more
2016 12 Feb
The number of older adults representing minority groups is forecasted to increase by 39 percent by 2050 as compared to 21 percent in 2012. Most of the increases are expected to be among the Asian, Native, Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander populations. In addition, the proportion of Hispanic adults is projected to more than double over the next 41Read more