Academic Medicine Culture

Sustaining a diverse physician workforce depends on environments that prioritize support, collaboration, belonging, and equitable career conditions. Participants rejected one-size-fits-all well-being programmes and called for individualized, dynamic systems. A leadership-driven cultural shift away from competition and productivity and toward collaboration, support, and inclusion is needed. Academic medicine's historical structures create disproportionate risks for mental health, well-being, and career progression among female and URM physicians.