Background Prior research has shown a gender gap in the evaluations of emergency
medicine (EM) residents' competency on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical …

Importance In the surgical community, there is concern that general surgery residents are
choosing subspecialty training in large numbers because of a crisis in confidence at the end …

While assessment is a core function of medical education, concerns remain about equity in
assessment. In this issue of JAMA Network Open, a large study highlights the inequity in …

Objective: To determine differences in entrustable professional activity (EPA) assessments
between male and female general surgery residents. Summary Background Data …

Purpose To examine whether there are group differences in milestone ratings submitted by
program directors working with clinical competency committees (CCCs) based on gender for …

Background: Recent literature suggests that physicians' diagnostic confidence tends to
exceed accuracy, with confidence being relatively inflexible regardless of case difficulty (1) …

Background Implicit bias has been documented in candidate selection within academic
medicine. Gender bias is exposed when writers systematically use different language to …

Background: The 2014 adoption of the Milestone ratings system may have affected
evaluation bias against minoritized groups. Objective: To assess bias in internal medicine …

Importance Gender disparities exist throughout medicine. Recent studies have highlighted
an attainment gap between male and female residents in performance evaluations on …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Graduate medical education programs assess trainees'
performance to determine readiness for unsupervised practice. Entrustable professional …