Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
J Surg Res. 2020 Sep;253:149-155. doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2020.03.045. Epub 2020 Apr 28.
We compared the representation of women panelists at two large, general interest surgical meetings: the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress and Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) Scientific Congress.
We performed comprehensive analyses of panels and panelists at ACS and RACS meetings (2013-2018). Manual review was conducted to determine counts and proportions of invited panelists by gender. We made within- and between-meeting comparisons regarding gender representation by specialty track. Tracks were characterized after our review of meeting programs.
There were 4542 panelists and 1390 panels at RACS from 2013 to 2018. At ACS, there were 3363 panelists over 693 panels. The specialty tracks with the highest proportion of men-only panels were transplant (75%) and cardiothoracic (63%) at ACS and cardiothoracic (83%) and multidisciplinary (81%) at RACS. The lowest proportions of men-only panels were in breast and pediatric surgery at ACS (5% and 11%, respectively) and breast and rural surgery at RACS (24% and 36%, respectively). At ACS, the highest proportions of women panelists were on panels in breast (63%) and endocrine surgery (48%) and in breast (44%) and rural surgery (33%) at RACS, while the lowest proportion of women panelists were in transplant (10%) and cardiothoracic (14%) at ACS and multidisciplinary (8%) and cardiothoracic (7%) at RACS.
There is a persistent difference in gender representation at surgical meetings, particularly within certain subspecialties. Program chairs and committees could increase the proportion of women by focusing on who serves as panelists overall and within specialty tracks.
我们比较了两个大型普通外科会议——美国外科医师学院（ACS）临床大会和澳大利亚皇家外科医学院（RACS）科学大会——的女性小组成员的代表性。
我们对 ACS 和 RACS 会议（2013-2018 年）的小组和小组成员进行了全面分析。通过手动审查确定了按性别邀请的小组成员的人数和比例。我们根据专业轨道的性别代表性进行了会议内和会议间的比较。我们在审查会议计划后对轨道进行了分类。
2013 年至 2018 年，RACS 共有 4542 名小组成员和 1390 个小组。ACS 共有 3363 名小组成员，分为 693 个小组。ACS 中男性小组成员比例最高的专业轨道是移植（75%）和心胸外科（63%），RACS 中则是心胸外科（83%）和多学科（81%）。ACS 中男性小组成员比例最低的是乳腺和小儿外科（分别为 5%和 11%），RACS 中则是乳腺和农村外科（分别为 24%和 36%）。ACS 中女性小组成员比例最高的小组分别是乳腺（63%）和内分泌外科（48%）以及乳腺（44%）和农村外科（33%），而女性小组成员比例最低的是移植（10%）和心胸外科（14%），RACS 中则是多学科（8%）和心胸外科（7%）。
外科会议上的性别代表性存在持续差异，特别是在某些亚专业领域。项目主席和委员会可以通过关注总体和专业轨道上的小组成员来提高女性的比例。
