Assessment of Gender Equity Among Invited Speakers and Award Recipients at US Annual Medical Education Conferences

JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Nov 1;2(11):e1916222. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.16222.

Authors

Halah Ibrahim¹, Sawsan Abdel-Razig², Dora J Stadler³, Joseph Cofrancesco Jr⁴, Sophia Archuleta⁵

Affiliations

¹ Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
² New York University School of Medicine, New York.
³ Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar.
⁴ Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Institute for Excellence in Education, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study assesses the gender balance of invited speakers and award recipients at US annual medical education conferences.

MeSH terms

Awards and Prizes*
Congresses as Topic / statistics & numerical data*
Cross-Sectional Studies
Education, Medical / statistics & numerical data*
Female
Humans
Male
Sexism* / statistics & numerical data
United States