APRIL 25, 2024

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Survey: Impostor Phenomenon, Microaggressions Common in GI

More than 92% of participants in a leadership conference for female gastroenterology healthcare professionals reported that they had been a target of microaggressions at work, and more than 88% said they had experienced feelings of “impostor phenomenon,” according to a survey published simultaneously in Gastroenterology and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Although other studies and surveys have reported on the prevalence of these phenomena in other medical specialties,