Women in Surgical Residency Programs in Brazil: A Trend Analysis.

Autor: Brandão GR; Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Electronic address: gr.brandao@outlook.com., Bueno Motter S; Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil., Iaroseski J; Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil., Oliveira Trindade B; Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil., Mozzaquatro de Assis Brasil C; Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil., Severino Rodrigues G; Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil., de Andrade R; Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil., Bouzeid Estacia da Silveira I; Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil., Deborah de Moraes A; Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre, Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil., Paz de Paiva M; Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Brazil, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of surgical research [J Surg Res] 2024 Jan; Vol. 293, pp. 22-27. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 10.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2023.07.039
Abstrakt: Introduction: There is a gender gap in the surgical field worldwide. Brazil and low- and middle-income countries generally tend to have a more profound gap. Therefore, we aim to assess the gender distribution in Brazilian surgical residencies.
Methods: From a national residencies' database, we collected residency entering years, names, and surgical subspecialties. We classified gender from the names using Gender API software and performed linear regression, binomial, and chi-square tests.
Results: From 81,979 doctors (1931-2020), 36.6% were women (P < 0.001). Of 13 subspecialties, regarding the absolute numbers of women, only neurosurgery and plastic surgery did not significantly differ between gender per year. There was a statistically significant growth in the proportional rates of female representation among most of the surgical residencies analyzed. Overall, the least women's representation was in urology (3.8%). From all subspecialties analyzed, both genders had a significant linear absolute increase over the years (P < 0.05), except for obstetrics-gynecology and pediatric surgery for men. Until 1990, all surgical programs had at least one woman resident, except for colorectal surgery.
Conclusions: Although there is an overall lack of women surgeons in Brazil, we observed an increase in women in surgical residencies. Therefore, the study may demonstrate a future change in the Brazilian gender equity scenario and reflect the growing representation of women in medicine in Brazil, except for some surgical specialties.
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