A survey among members of the Association of Women Surgeons aimed at assessing the
parenthood experience during surgical training [6] found that 78% of the women received …

Background Although family and lifestyle are known to be important factors for medical
students choosing a specialty, there is a lack of research about general surgery residency …

Purpose: The number of women entering surgical fields has not risen proportionately with
the number of women finishing medical school. Surgical training occurs during time that is …

Cancer Research, Statistics, and Treatment/Volume 3/Issue 2/April-June 2020 supported me
like angels and I will be ever indebted to them for their help. One of my female professors …

Background. Pregnancy during general surgery residency has traditionally been
discouraged. Methods. In 2001, using an approved protocol, we anonymously surveyed 25 …

Objective Resident physicians undergo physically and emotionally rigorous training; this is
particularly difficult for the pregnant resident and affects their unborn child. This study aims to …

Background Women physicians may have a multiplicity of domestic roles (eg, cook,
housekeeper, child care provider) that are of inherent interest and that may affect their …

In the past few decades, more and more women have entered the fields of science,
technology, engineering, and mathematics, and the sight of a female physician in a hospital …

Importance Physicians who are mothers face challenges with equal distribution of domestic
duties, which can be an obstacle in career advancement and achieving overall job …

Over the years, a fair amount of research on preg-nancy and postgraduate medical training
has been completed. A simple PubMed search on this topic generates hundreds of hits, and …