Mustafa Tamim Alam Khan, Ronit Patnaik, Allison N Laffoon, Lucijana Krokar, Spencer R Ince, Estefania Hurtado, Mio Kitano, Danielle M Fritze, Daniel L Dent
INTRODUCTION: To explore gender discrepancies in publications at general surgery departments, we performed a cross-sectional comparing the number of women and men at each academic rank and their number of first author (FA), middle author (MA), last author (LA), and total publications. METHODS: Thirty academic general surgery departments were randomly selected. For each faculty, we tabulated: first, middle, last names, gender, academic rank, educational leadership, year of medical school graduation, and additional graduate degrees...
March 20, 2023: Journal of Surgical Research