Female applying to Surgery

[Surgery2Do]

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I am a female and would like to apply to a program who has at least 25% female surgeons.

Any suggestions welcome, I graduate with my MD in May 2004.

 

[fourthyear]

Good luck!

In all my interviews last year, I usually saw less than 10% women interviewing. So it will be hard to find a program with that many women because I don't even think that many have been applying yet.

But, like all other specialties, we're breaking our way in slowly and I'm sure that soon we will have 25% and more in surgery. For now, I'd just at least look for progams where the female residents seem happy, and that will be a sign that at least you'll be likely to be accepted and have a good time working there.

 

[Smurfette]

This post reminded me of something I heard recently....that women are at an advantage applying for surg (& other notoriously male specialties) b/c of the push to even out gender discrepancies or hit a target percentage. Has anyone else heard this?

In today's PC society, I can see the LCME pushing for more gender and racial diversity in residency programs, but I don't know if there is any truth to this or not.

smurfette

 

[triathlete411]

UNC-Chapel Hill: about 35-40% of the general surgery residents are female.

 

[vuillaume]

When I interviewed, I was impressed (and gratified--being male) that close to half of the other interviewees were women. Depends on where you go. I'd be curious to see what the Match statistics ended out being.

My feeling is that good programs will go for good candidates regardless of their gender. They'd be stupid to eliminate top-notch candidates because of archaic notions of gender roles.

 

[MacGyver]

Originally posted by Smurfette
This post reminded me of something I heard recently....that women are at an advantage applying for surg (& other notoriously male specialties) b/c of the push to even out gender discrepancies or hit a target percentage. Has anyone else heard this?

In today's PC society, I can see the LCME pushing for more gender and racial diversity in residency programs, but I don't know if there is any truth to this or not.

smurfette

Dont you just love double standards?

Urology: male dominated field with almost all male patients:
Solution: increase women


Ob/gyn: female dominated field (residency anyways) with all female patients
Solution: no need to increase men