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- J S Biermann.
- Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-0946, USA. biermann@umich.edu
- Acad Med. 1998 Jun 1; 73 (6): 708-9.
PurposeTo evaluate the effect that increased numbers of women medical school graduates have had on the composition of orthopedic surgery residencies, and to evaluate trends over time in the likelihood of women medical students to select orthopedic residencies.MethodThe author analyzed JAMA's "Reports on Graduate and Undergraduate Medical Education" for the years 1977 to 1996, calculating the numbers of women and men in orthopedic surgery and other surgery residencies, and medical school composition.ResultsAlthough there have been modest gains in the number of women in orthopedic surgery training programs in the United States, women continue to choose orthopedics only one-seventh as often as do men.ConclusionOrthopedics remains an unattractive career choice for women medical students compared with their men counterparts. Biases and stereotypes about women and about orthopedic surgery may account for this difference.
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