Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Residency director of the Integrated IR/DR residency, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
J Am Coll Radiol. 2021 Oct;18(10):1451-1455. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2021.06.016. Epub 2021 Jul 8.
Examine changes in gender representation in the interventional radiology (IR) training pool since the advent of the integrated IR residency in 2015 to 2020.
Electronic Residency Application Service and ACGME Data Resource Book records from 2015 to 2020 were reviewed for integrated IR residency and vascular and interventional radiology (VIR) fellowship applicant data and active IR resident and VIR fellow data, respectively. The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) 2018 registry data were reviewed for SIR membership data. Two-tailed Fisher's exact tests and χ analyses were used to compare trainees between application cycles.
In the 2017 application cycle, 23% (247 of 1,062) of integrated IR residency applicants were female, with similar interest in the 2018, 2019, and 2020 cycles (χ[3, n = 2,863] = 5.1, P = .17). In comparison, female VIR fellowship applicants were 12% from 2017 to 2020. Female integrated IR residents represented 13% to 18% of all integrated IR residents in the 2016 to 2020 academic years compared with the period before the integrated IR residency when female IR trainees represented 8% (23 of 275) of all IR trainees in 2015 to 2016 (P = .0002). Although in 2018, the total active SIR female membership was 9% (319 of 3,622), the female resident membership was 17% (131 of 793), and the female medical student membership was 25% (389 of 1,573).
With the advent of the integrated IR residency, there is an increasing female constituency, at the medical student, IR applicant, and IR resident levels, with more than a doubling of female IR trainees, portending a continued reduction in the IR gender disparity in the future.
自 2015 年介入放射学（IR）综合住院医师培训计划开始以来，检查性别在介入放射学培训中的代表性变化。
分别审查了 2015 年至 2020 年电子住院医师申请服务和 ACGME 数据资源手册中综合 IR 住院医师和血管和介入放射学（VIR）研究员申请数据以及活跃的 IR 住院医师和 VIR 研究员数据，以及介入放射学学会（SIR）2018 年登记数据中的 SIR 会员数据。使用双尾 Fisher 精确检验和 χ 分析比较各申请周期之间的受训者。
在 2017 年的申请周期中，23%（247 名/1062 名）的综合 IR 住院医师申请人为女性，而在 2018 年、2019 年和 2020 年的申请周期中，她们对该专业表现出类似的兴趣（χ[3，n=2863]=5.1，P=0.17）。相比之下，2017 年至 2020 年，女性 VIR 研究员的比例为 12%。与 2015 年至 2016 年的综合 IR 住院医师培训计划开始前相比，2016 至 2020 学年，女性综合 IR 住院医师代表所有综合 IR 住院医师的 13%至 18%，而在此期间，IR 受训者中的女性比例为 8%（23 名/275 名）（P=0.0002）。尽管 2018 年，SIR 的女性总会员人数为 9%（319 名/3622 名），但女性住院医师会员人数为 17%（131 名/793 名），女性医学生会员人数为 25%（389 名/1573 名）。
随着综合 IR 住院医师培训计划的出现，医学生、IR 申请人和 IR 住院医师的女性比例不断增加，IR 受训者中的女性人数增加了一倍多，这预示着未来 IR 性别差距将继续缩小。
