Persistent Lack of Female Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellows.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the gender composition of fellows, faculty, and leaders within orthopaedic sports medicine fellowship programs to provide a more complete description of gender diversity within this subspecialty.

Methods

Official program websites of orthopaedic sports medicine fellowships listed on the Arthroscopy Association of North America fellowship directory were examined. Data collected for analysis included the gender of program directors, fellowship faculty, orthopaedic surgery department faculty, current sports medicine fellows, and fellows who graduated within the last 5 years.

Results

Of the 132 orthopaedic sports medicine fellows in training in the United States in the 2021 to 2022 academic year, 113 (85.6%) were men and 19 (14.4%) were women (P

SUBMITTER: Lavorgna TR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10461135 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature