Kari Bailey, MD, on the evolving priorities of women in urology

In this video, Kari Bailey, MD, recaps a key point from the session, “Women’s Urologic Health Alliance Program Adapting to the Modern Workforce,” which she took part in during the 2024 LUGPA Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Bailey is a urologist and the head of the women’s health department at AAUrology in Annapolis, Maryland.

Video Transcript:

Another one of the goals for the Women's Urologic Health Alliance session is to talk about parental leave. I think these are things that are not in place in a lot of practices. It is something that this generation, both men and women, not only are going to be happy to see, they're going to expect it. So, we really need to make sure that when we are trying to recruit people, that we have these policies in place that make sense to their priorities and to the changing landscape.

Women are more likely to join academic centers for a number of reasons, as I mentioned. One of them being that they have more comprehensive policies. They can tell you what's going to happen if you decide to have a child and what kind of support you're going to get, whereas a lot of these private practices are behind in that. Women are not sure what they're going to get and what kind of support they're going to have. So, I think that's really important.

I think work-life balance is a very different balance than it was 20 years ago, probably even 10 years ago, in terms of what the lifestyle of a physician looks like, what the expectation of the lifestyle of a physician looks like. Things that were typically used to recruit younger physicians need to change because those aren't their priorities anymore. The biggest challenge will be adapting to figuring out what people need, what's going to retain them, and what is important to them, and it's not necessarily what was important to the leadership 20 years ago.

This transcript was AI generated and edited by human editors for clarity.