Importance Despite women composing half of current medical school classes, surgical
specialties still struggle to attract and retain women. Even after successful recruitment into …

Background Interest in surgical careers among medical students has declined over the past
decade. Multiple explanations have been offered for why top students are deterred or …

Despite the dramatically increased entry of women into general surgery and surgical
subspecialties, traditionally male-dominated fields, there remains a gross under …

Background: Gender-based discrimination and sexual harassment are common in medical
practice and may be even more prevalent in academic medicine. Objective: To examine the …

Purpose To examine the role of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in medical
students' choice of specialty and residency program. Method Anonymous, self-administered …

Hypothesis We hypothesized that increased enrollment of female medical students and
different priorities of the current generation of students would be important influences on the …

Background Undergraduate education studies have suggested instructor sex can influence
female students to pursue a discipline. We sought to evaluate a similar hypothesis in …

BACKGROUND: This study explored the factors contributing to the low application rates to
general surgery (GS) residency by female students and compared perceptions of GS …

While gender-based bias and discrimination (GBD) is known to exist in medical training,
there is limited guidance for training programs on how to understand and combat this issue …

Background: The year 2017 marked the first year women comprised a majority of US
medical school matriculants. While more women are pursuing surgical training, within plastic …