More than a quarter said that other specialisms offered a better work-life balance. The authors say common themes emerged among written comments, including conflicts between personal life and career, the problematically rigid structure of surgical training — and blatant discrimination. However, the study was small and reached only a subset of surgeons, and there could also have been bias in who answered the survey.
Bellini said the attrition of women in surgery showed something serious was amiss. The good news is that younger women are signing up for surgical specialties more than ever before. About 35 percent of residents specializing in general surgery were women, according to a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges. As more and more women sign up to learn surgical specialties, hospitals should concentrate on retention, said Dr.
Niamey Wilson, chief of breast surgery at St. One way Wilson is helping to change the culture at her hospital is with a committee called the Physician Forum for Equity and Inclusion, which mentors female doctors to help them become leaders in their field. Guidelines capping weekly residency shifts at 80 hours, which went into effect last July , will also play a big role in helping retain doctors regardless of gender, Kozar added, as the punishing workload of surgeons and other medical specialties harms everyone.
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Plastic surgeons: a gender comparison. And implicit bias toward women in surgery may even come from other surgeons. A July study in JAMA Network Open found that regardless of gender, surgeons more strongly associated men with surgery and women with family medicine. But amid these obstacles, efforts are underway nationally and institutionally to encourage more women to go into surgery and help them thrive in their careers, from creating peer support networks to mentoring the next generation of women surgeons.
But we're just going to keep the pressure up until we fix it. Even as women have made significant inroads in medicine, surgery remains a specialty with numerous hurdles for women. A article in the International Journal of Surgery Global Health highlighted some of the social deterrents to surgical careers among women.
It noted that women can be subjected to gendered expectations about work-life balance and steered away from a career that could take time away from starting families and raising children. Indeed, surgical residencies are long, and women are often faced with inflexibility and obstacles around taking time off , such as a lack of formal parental leave policies, according to a study in JAMA Surgery.
Rising to the highest levels of leadership within their institutions also remains a significant hurdle, which may discourage younger women from going into the field.
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