What The Study Did: Researchers identified surgical specialties with the lowest percentage of female resident physicians and looked at the changes over a decade in the percentage of women in different specialties.
Authors: Christopher L. Bennett, M.D., M.A., of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2020.2171)
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JAMA Surgery