Assessment of Paid Childbearing and Family Leave Policies for Administrative Staff at Top US Medical Schools

Mary C Vance; Nicholas S Riano; Reshma Jagsi; Marlene J Guzman; Whitney Beeler; Eleni Linos; Christina Mangurian

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.6653

Assessment of Paid Childbearing and Family Leave Policies for Administrative Staff at Top US Medical Schools

JAMA Intern Med. 2020 Apr 1;180(4):589-592. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.6653.

Authors

Mary C Vance¹, Nicholas S Riano², Reshma Jagsi^{3

4}, Marlene J Guzman⁵, Whitney Beeler⁴, Eleni Linos^{6

7}, Christina Mangurian²

Affiliations

¹ Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.
² UCSF Department of Psychiatry, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco.
³ Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
⁵ Private Consultant, San Francisco, California.
⁶ Department of Dermatology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Abstract

This quality improvement study reviews the human resources policies for childbearing and family leave for administrative staff at 12 leading US medical schools.

MeSH terms

Administrative Personnel*
Adult
Family Leave / economics*
Fathers
Female
Humans
Male
Mothers
Organizational Policy
Parental Leave / economics*
Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
Salaries and Fringe Benefits / statistics & numerical data*
Schools, Medical / economics*
United States

Grants and funding

K24 AR075060/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States