2023
DOI: 10.2106/jbjs.23.00238
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Overcoming the Barriers to Diversity in Orthopaedic Surgery

Essam Rama,
Seper Ekhtiari,
Gowreeson Thevendran
et al.

Abstract: Background: Diversity in orthopaedics continues to lag behind that in other surgical specialties. This pattern exists globally and is not unique to gender or race. This review offers a global perspective on overcoming the barriers to diversity in orthopaedics. Methods: A literature search of MEDLINE and Embase was conducted and a narrative review was undertaken. Publications that discussed any aspect of diversity or solutions to diversity within orthopa… Show more

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“…Compared with other STEM professions, physicians must demonstrate total commitment to caring for patients, research, and teaching with often uncontrollably long working hours and relatively high levels of workplace violence [12][13]. There are particular forms of gendered segregation in specialties such as very low numbers of women orthopaedic consultant surgeons [14]. Working lives in Indian medical schools are characterised by punishing hours, physicians overloaded with patients and emergencies and huge family life and work pressures with women feeling particularly high stress levels [15] and more likely than men not to be recognised as physicians [16].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Compared with other STEM professions, physicians must demonstrate total commitment to caring for patients, research, and teaching with often uncontrollably long working hours and relatively high levels of workplace violence [12][13]. There are particular forms of gendered segregation in specialties such as very low numbers of women orthopaedic consultant surgeons [14]. Working lives in Indian medical schools are characterised by punishing hours, physicians overloaded with patients and emergencies and huge family life and work pressures with women feeling particularly high stress levels [15] and more likely than men not to be recognised as physicians [16].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%