64 Implementation of Federal Dependent Care Policies for Physician Scientists at Top US Medical Schools

Measures to support physician scientists with dependent responsibilities can help address the sex gap in academic medicine. In 2014 the federal government issued regulation in 45 CFR 75.474 allowing temporary dependent care costs for required research-related travel to be expensed to federal grants. We investigated whether institutional policies at top-ranked U.S. medical schools allow for implementation of this clause. We performed a...