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 …

Purpose Research has shown that barriers to career success in academic medicine
disproportionately affect women. These barriers include inadequate mentoring, which may …

Background: Women seldom reach the highest leadership positions in academic plastic
surgery. Contributing factors include lack of female role models/mentors and lack of gender …

Purpose To determine whether the preferences of female medical students are sufficient to
explain the recent trend of US medical students choosing specialties with controllable …

Background The purpose of this study was to explore career satisfaction and advancement
for women in academic surgery. Methods A 48-item web-based survey was emailed to …

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 …

Preface The leadership of Women in Neurosurgery (WINS) has been asked by the Board of
Directors of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) to compose a white …

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 …

OBJECT Women compose a minority of neurosurgery residents, averaging just over 10% of
matched applicants per year during this decade. A recent review by Lynch et al. raises the …