Gender Differences in Emergency Medicine Attending Physician Comments to Residents: A Qualitative Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Prior studies have revealed gender differences in the milestone and clinical competency committee assessment of emergency medicine (EM) residents.

Objective

To explore gender disparities and the reasons for such disparities in the narrative comments from EM attending physicians to EM residents.

Design, setting, and participants

This multicenter qualitative analysis examined 10 488 narrative comments among EM faculty and EM residents between 2015 to 2018 in 5 EM training programs in the US. Data were analyzed from 2019 to 2021.

Main outcomes and measures

Differences in narrative comments by gender and study site. Qualitative analysis included deidentification and iterative coding of the data set using an axial coding approach, with double coding of 20

SUBMITTER: Mamtani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9679878 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature