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Volume 357:1889-1891 November 8, 2007 Number 19
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Becoming a Doctor, Starting a Family — Leaves of Absence from Graduate Medical Education
Reshma Jagsi, M.D., Nancy J. Tarbell, M.D., and Debra F. Weinstein, M.D.

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Colleagues offered congratulations when Mike and Anya announced that they were expecting a baby — due a few months before their expected graduation from residency programs in radiology and family medicine. Both had plum jobs lined up across the country, where grandparents could help with child care.

Mike's radiology program director told him he could take 8 weeks of parental leave and that the American Board of Radiology would exempt him from making up this time. Mike's fellow residents were relieved that the extra on-call responsibility would not be distributed among them but rather would be covered by moonlighters. Unfortunately, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. Jagsi is an assistant professor of radiation oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor; and Dr. Tarbell is the director of the Center for Faculty Development and the Office of Women's Careers and a professor of radiation oncology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital; and Dr. Weinstein is the vice president for graduate medical education at the Partners HealthCare System and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital — both in Boston.



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