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      Editorial : Fears About #MeToo are No Excuse to Deny Mentorship to Women in Orthopaedic Surgery

      Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
      Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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          Medical School Experiences Shape Women Students’ Interest in Orthopaedic Surgery

          Background Orthopaedic surgery now has the lowest percentage of women in residency programs of any surgical specialty. Understanding factors, particularly those related to the medical school experience, that contribute to the specialty’s inability to draw from the best women students is crucial to improving diversity in the profession. Questions/purposes (1) Does required medical school exposure to orthopaedic surgery increase the proportion of women choosing the specialty? (2) Do negative perceptions deter women from choosing orthopaedic surgery? (3) What proportion of orthopaedic faculty members are women, and what proportion of residents are women? (4) To what degree has gender bias been identified in the application/interview process? Methods Two PubMed searches of articles between 2005 and 2015 were performed using a combination of medical subject headings. The first search combined “Orthopaedics” with “Physicians, women” and phrases “women surgeons” or “female surgeons” and the second combined “Orthopedics” with “Internship & Residency” or “exp Education, Medical” and “Sex Ratio” or “Sex Factors”, resulting in 46 publications of which all abstracts were reviewed resulting in 11 manuscripts that were related to the research questions. The Google Scholar search of “women in orthopaedic surgery” identified one additional publication. These 12 manuscripts were read and bibliographies of each reviewed with two additional publications identified and included. Results Required exposure to orthopaedics was found to be positively associated with the number of women applicants to the field, whereas negative perceptions have been reported to deter women from choosing orthopaedic surgery. Orthopaedics has the lowest percentage of women faculty and women residents (14%) compared with other specialties; this suggests that same gender mentorship opportunities are limited. For women applying to orthopaedics, gender bias is most evident through illegal interview questions, in which women are asked such questions more often than men (such as family planning questions, asked to 61% of women versus 8% of men). Conclusions Successful recruitment of women to orthopaedic surgery may be improved by early exposure and access to role models, both of which will help women students’ perceptions of their role in field of orthopaedic surgery.
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            Women in surgical residency training programs.

            Increasing numbers of women are entering surgical fields. The purpose of this study was to assess whether orthopaedic surgery is significantly different from other surgical fields in the recruitment of women to training programs. We analyzed data from the American Association of Medical Colleges as reported in annual issues on medical education in the Journal of the American Medical Association for the years 1970 to 2001, excluding 1975. Using linear regression models, we analyzed two factors: changes in the percentage of women within orthopaedic residencies (i.e., the ratio of men to women) and changes in the percentage of all female residents who choose to enter orthopaedics compared with other types of surgical residencies. The percentage of women in the entering classes of medical school has increased from 11.1% in 1970 to 47.8% in 2001, while the percentage of women in orthopaedics has increased from 0.6% in 1970 to 9.0% in 2001. Orthopaedic residencies have the lowest percentage of women compared with all other primary surgical specialties. Only thoracic surgery, a field entered secondarily after the completion of general surgical training, has a lower percentage. The increases in the percentage of women in orthopaedics over the past thirty years have been significantly lower than those in every other primary surgical field (including general surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and urology), except neurosurgery, and are markedly different from the percentages of women in the entering classes of medical school. The percentage of all female residents who choose an orthopaedic residency is 0.6%, a number that has not changed over the past twenty years. Orthopaedic surgery has not had the same success in recruiting female trainees that other surgical fields have had. Furthermore, there appears to be a leveling of the recruitment rate over the past two decades, indicating that the higher numbers of women entering medicine will not be sufficient to improve gender representation in orthopaedic surgery training.
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              Harassment charges: Metoo but due process

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                Journal
                Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
                Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
                Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
                0009-921X
                2019
                March 2019
                : 477
                : 3
                : 473-476
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                10.1097/CORR.0000000000000654
                1a96b947-e450-450e-ad5f-47fb9451d03b
                © 2019
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