JULY 12, 2019

Correcting Gender Disparity in GI Demands More Female Leaders

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Sajiv Sethi, MD

San Diego—The relatively low rates of female doctors specializing in gastroenterology are well documented, but new data point to a solution: Place more women in leadership roles.

“Women in any leadership position increase the mean number of female fellows in a GI training program,” reported Sajiv Sethi, MD, a fellow in the Division of Gastroenterology at the University of South Florida, in Tampa.

Dr. Sethi and his colleagues collected data from 173 GI fellowship