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ArticleAdvances in radiation oncology

Cross-Sectional Gender Analysis of US Radiation Oncology Residency Programs in 2019: More Than a Pipeline Issue?

Toms Vengaloor Thomas, Teessa Perekattu Kuruvilla, Emma Holliday, Eldrin Bhanat, Amy Parr, Ashley A Albert, Brandi Page, Jessica Schuster, Christina Chapman, Srinivasan Vijayakumar

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Article in Advances in radiation oncology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Toms Vengaloor ThomasUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Teessa Perekattu KuruvillaUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Emma HollidayUniversity of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Eldrin BhanatUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Amy ParrUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Ashley A AlbertUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
Brandi PageJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Jessica SchusterUniversity of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wsconsin.
Christina ChapmanUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Srinivasan VijayakumarUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi.
University of Mississippi Medical Center · USJohns Hopkins University · USThe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center · USUniversity of Michigan · USUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Role of obesity in preeclamptic pregnancy.P20GM121334 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MED CTR · PI Ashley C. Johnson, Babbette LaMarca · 2017 to 2026
$26.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM121334
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe purpose of this study is to assess the current status of gender disparities in academic radiation oncology departments in the United States and the associated factors. METHODS AND MATERIALS: The data were collected from publicly available resources, including websites of individual radiation oncology programs, the Fellowship and Residency Electronic Interactive Database, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, and the Association of American Medical Colleges. We collected data on the gender information of residents in each year (postgraduate years 2-5) and of the faculty (attendings, program director, and chair) during the academic year 2018 to 2019. Spearman's rho test, Pearson's chi-squared test, and Fisher exact tests were used for evaluating the correlation among variables using SPSS version 24.

resultsWomen constituted 30.8% of radiation oncology residents in the United States in 2019. Eight programs (12.5%) did not have any female residents in their programs, whereas 6 programs (9%) had women constituting more than half of their resident class. The fraction of female medical students applying to radiation oncology over the last 7 years varied between 27% and 33%. Female attending physicians accounted for 30.5% of all the attending physicians in the academic programs. In the leadership positions of the department, the gender gap was wider where only 19 (20%) and 11 (12%) of programs had female program director or chair, respectively. There was a positive correlation between the number of attending physicians and the number of female residents in programs (

conclusionsA significant gender disparity continues to exist among the residents and physicians in the academic radiation oncology departments in the US. This disparity is pronounced in the leadership positions. The results of this study could be used as a benchmark to evaluate the progress that has been made by the efforts to improve gender disparities in radiation oncology.

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