Publications
The Center exists in part to create original evidence and information that support and advance conversations around professionalism, value, and other health care issues.
READ about scientific publications, briefs, and reports emerging from the Center and its collaborators below.
Women in medicine often fill ‘unrecognized and uncompensated’ leadership roles
Submitted on: October, 2025
Women physicians often take on mentorship roles rather than “institutionally recognized leadership positions,” but there are solutions that may help level the playing field, according to experts.
Although the presence of women in U.S. medical schools has grown over the last 25 years, equitable representation in medical leadership “remains elusive,” Annie Koempel, PhD, MA, RDN, LD, a qualitative scientist with the American Board of Family Medicine, and colleagues wrote in a study recently published in Family Practice.
Read MoreLEAD STORY IN ACADEMYHEALTH DAILY NEWS: Reclaiming Medical Professionalism In An Era Of Corporate Healthcare
Submitted on: September, 2025
Medicine’s increasing corporatization has fundamentally altered how physicians practice, yet discussions of medical professionalism often remain anchored in frameworks from decades past. The surge in health care consolidation and sixfold growth in private equity ownership of practices has transformed physicians’ daily operations and decision-making. Any meaningful discussion of professionalism must now address these material and environmental contexts. How does consolidation affect professional daily decisions?
Do Residency Signals Actually Signal Intent? Insights From the 2024 Family Medicine National Resident Survey
- Wendy Barr, MD, MPH, MSCE
Submitted on: August, 2025
In the setting of the growing need to train more family physicians and the growth of available residency slots, there is also increasing concern about the decreasing percentage of family medicine (FM) residency positions being filled in the primary Match process and the increased reliance on the Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) to fill residency positions.1,2 The American Academy of Family Physicians announced in April 2025 their Residency Selection Improvement Initiative to evaluate residency selection and recruitment in FM with one of the goals being to improve the efficiency and function of the FM residency selection process.3 One of the tools identified for evaluation are the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) program signals and geographic preferences.4 These ERAS tools were created as an aid for applicants to highlight their interests and preferences and for programs to more easily identify interested applicants who are best suited for their program as part of a holistic application review. After being piloted by several other specialties, FM adopted program signaling where applicants could use up to five signals of interest to specific programs and signal geographic preferences in the 2023-2024 cycle.
