ReviewRegional anesthesia and pain medicine2018
Why Aren't There More Female Pain Medicine Physicians?
Review in Regional anesthesia and pain medicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Gender Disparities in Interventional Pain Medicine: Representation, Leadership, and Compensation.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2026Article
- Declining pain medicine fellowship applications from 2019 to 2024: A concerning trend among anesthesia residents and a growing gender disparity.Pain practice : the official journal of World Institute of Pain · 2025Article
- The Role of Female Physicians in Psychosomatic Medicine: Opportunities and Challenges.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Gender Disparities in Academic Pain Medicine: A Retrospective, Cross-Sectional Bibliometric Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
- Speaker Gender Representation at the North American Neuromodulation Society Annual Meeting (2017-2021): Have We Made Progress in Closing the Gender Gap?Journal of pain research · 2022Article
- Analysis of Gender-Based Authorship Trends in Leading Pain-Medicine Journals Over 10 Years.Health psychology research · 2022Article
- Gender-Based Disparity in Academic Ranking and Research Productivity Among Canadian Anesthesiology Faculty.Cureus · 2020Article
- Sex Disparity Persists in Pain Medicine: A Cross-Sectional Study of Chairpersons Within ACGME-Accredited Chronic Pain Fellowship Programs in the United States.The journal of education in perioperative medicine : JEPMArticle
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Abstract
Despite a growing awareness about the importance of gender equity and the rising number of women in medicine, women remain persistently underrepresented in pain medicine and anesthesiology. Pain medicine ranks among the bottom quartile of medical specialties in terms of female applicants, female trainees, and proportion of female practitioners. Female pain medicine physicians are also notably disadvantaged compared with their male colleagues in most objective metrics of gender equity, which include financial compensation, career advancement, public recognition, and leadership positions. Increased gender diversity among pain medicine physicians is vital to fostering excellence in pain research, education, and clinical care, as well as creating a high-quality work environment. Pain medicine stands at a crossroads as a specialty, and must examine reasons for its current gender gap and consider a call to action to address this important issue.
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