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01-09-2016 | Symposium: Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Orthopaedics

Editorial Comment: Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Orthopaedics

Authors: Jennifer Weiss, MD, Michelle S. Caird, MD

Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® | Issue 9/2016

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Our profession is stronger and our patients are better cared for when we, as their orthopaedic surgeons, mirror them in gender, race, and ethnicity. But the statistics remain grim. The percentage of women in orthopaedic residency programs in the United States has risen only slightly from 8.8% in 2001 to 13.6% in 2011. Overall, the percentage of women in residency programs has grown from 39% in 2001 to 46% in 2011 [1]. …

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Title: Editorial Comment: Women and Underrepresented Minorities in Orthopaedics
Authors: Jennifer Weiss, MD
Michelle S. Caird, MD
Publication date: 01-09-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research® / Issue 9/2016
Print ISSN: 0009-921X
Electronic ISSN: 1528-1132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-016-4923-z

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