Your NEJM Group Today: Women MDs & Academic Promotions / Prior Coronavirus Infection & COVID-19 Severity / Pathology & Primary Care Opportunities

By the Editors

Here's what we chose for you from NEJM Group today:

NEJM Primary Care/Hospitalist Page: Special article: In analyses of data on graduates from all U.S. medical schools from 1979 through 2013, women were less likely than men to be promoted from assistant to associate professor and from associate to full professor. Women were also less likely than men to be appointed to department chair. The sex differences have not diminished over time.

NEJM Journal Watch: Patients with a confirmed recent endemic human coronavirus infection have a milder course of COVID-19, according to a retrospective study.

NEJM CareerCenter:

• Pathology: The Sanford School of Medicine in South Dakota invites applications for an assistant/associate professor of pathology.

• Primary care: Catholic Health Services of Long Island has full-time opportunities for internal or family medicine physicians to join its community-based practices within Nassau and Suffolk Counties, New York.