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Correlations Between Department and Training Program Online Presence and Women in Orthopedic Surgery Training
Adkins, Sarah Hughes, Dorothy Zimmerman, Mary Templeton, Kimberly
Adkins, Sarah
Hughes, Dorothy
Zimmerman, Mary
Templeton, Kimberly
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Background: Orthopedic residency programs increasingly use websites and social media to reach students. This accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially as away rotations became limited. Women remain a minority of orthopedic residents, and there are no data that indicate the correlation between department/program website content or social media presence on the gender diversity of residency classes.
Methods: Orthopedic department websites were assessed between June 2021 and January 2022 to identify program director's gender, as well as the gender composition of the faculty and residents. Instagram presence for the department and/or program was also identified.
Results: There was no correlation found between the residency program director's gender and the gender diversity of residents in a given program. The percentage of women faculty identified on a department website was significantly correlated with the percentage of women residents in the program, regardless of the program director's gender. While there was an increase in the percentage of women residents among programs with Instagram accounts for the class that started in 2021, this was negated when the percentage of women faculty was taken into account.
Conclusion: Efforts on multiple fronts will be needed to increase the number and percentage of women applying for and training in orthopedic surgery. Given the increasing use of digital media, we need a better understanding of what information, including faculty gender diversity, can be conveyed through this format that is useful for women medical students interested in orthopedic surgery to address their concerns about the field.
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A grant from the One-University Open Access Fund at the University of Kansas was used to defray the author's publication fees in this Open Access journal. The Open Access Fund, administered by librarians from the KU, KU Law, and KUMC libraries, is made possible by contributions from the offices of KU Provost, KU Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Studies, and KUMC Vice Chancellor for Research. For more information about the Open Access Fund, please see http://library.kumc.edu/authors-fund.xml.
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2023-03-01
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Mary Ann Liebert
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Orthopedic surgery, Websites, Social media, Women, Gender, Residents
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Sarah Adkins, Dorothy Hughes, Mary Zimmerman, and Kimberly Templeton. Correlations Between Department and Training Program Online Presence and Women in Orthopedic Surgery Training. Women's Health Reports.May 2023.103-110.http://doi.org/10.1089/whr.2022.0081