High-compensation surgical specialties experienced increase in the proportion of female applicants and matriculants from 2008 to 2022<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n
By Lori Solomon HealthDay Reporter<\/b><\/p>\n
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Female physicians remain underrepresented among residents entering high-compensation specialties, according to a research letter published online Sept. 30 in the\u00a0Journal of the American Medical Association<\/em>.<\/p>\n Karina Pereira-Lima, Ph.D., from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues examined national trends in the proportion of female applicants and matriculants to residency programs for high-compensation surgical and nonsurgical pipeline specialties using data from the National Graduate Medical Education Census and Electronic Residency Application Service (2008 to 2022).<\/p>\n The researchers found that of the 490,188 matriculants to pipeline specialties, 25.5 percent entered high-compensation specialties (female, 34.6 percent; surgical, 57.6 percent). There was a significant increase in the proportion of female matriculants to high-compensation specialties from 32.7 percent in 2008 to 40.8 percent in 2022. However, the proportion of matriculants remained lower than the proportion in non-high-compensation specialties (53.0 percent in 2008 to 53.3 percent in 2022). There was a significant decrease in the proportion of female applicants to high-compensation nonsurgical specialties (36.8 percent in 2009 to 34.3 percent in 2022), while the proportion of female applicants to high-compensation surgical specialties increased from 28.1 percent in 2009 to 37.6 percent in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Future studies should identify which strategies were successful in attracting women to these specialties and whether they could be implemented by high-compensation nonsurgical specialties,” the authors write.<\/p>\n Abstract\/Full Text\u00a0(subscription or payment may be required)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/i><\/p>\n