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Sylvia is a veteran hospitalist who works at a major academic center as well as a satellite sister community hospital affiliated with her hospital. She has been working for 5 years and has watched colleagues of hers obtain leadership positions in the residency training program as well as in leadership positions at the satellite hospital. She was once offered a position to co-chair a patient safety committee with significant visibility with the hospital executives at her main hospital, but she had just had her first child and was anxious about the time commitment associated with the committee. Her colleague who took the committee chair position was recently promoted to Chief Informatics Officer after a very high performance with patient safety tools in EPIC.
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Offurum, A.I., Silva, K.N., Gulati, M.S. (2017). Women in Medicine. In: Habicht, R., Gulati, M. (eds) Hospital Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49092-2_7
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