BACKGROUND: The objective of the survey was to examine factors affecting career choice
by medical students. METHODS: A questionnaire was distributed to the 245 fourth-year …

Background Despite specialty-driven efforts to improve diversity in the field, few women
apply to orthopaedic residency, and women are unevenly distributed among programs …

Objective: To investigate and to characterise the practice patterns, academic rank, and
income variables that exist in order to better understand the career of a sports medicine …

BACKGROUND: Interest in general surgery has declined among US medical students, with
the increasing number of female medical students being cited as a causative factor. This …

Objectives Supporting female sports medicine physicians to simultaneously be mothers and
pursue professional careers is crucial to maintain gender diversity in sports medicine …

Since the United States' first woman began medical school less than two centuries ago,
medicine has become increasingly gender diverse. Women now make up the current …

Background: Although women represented 58% of undergraduate students and 48% of
medical students in the US in the 2008-2009 academic year, only 13% of orthopaedic …

Background: In academia, women remain underrepresented. The authors' sought to
examine differences in faculty position and professional satisfaction among academic …

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Objective To determine the importance of factors in decision making by general surgery
chief residents to pursue fellowships and to relate factor importance to gender and residency …