Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, Mineola, NY, USA.
Am J Clin Pathol. 2022 Oct 6;158(4):499-505. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqac076.
Recognition awards build physician reputation and facilitate career advancement. We hypothesize women physicians are underrepresented as award recipients by pathology medical societies compared with representation in the specialty.
We analyzed publicly available online information about physician recipients (January 2015 to December 2021) from three general pathology society websites. Recipient gender was determined by pronoun use, first name, and photograph. Representation was compared with Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) specialty data from 2015 and 2019, which showed a minimum of 36.7% women pathologists in 2015 and up to 43.4% in 2019.
Twenty-six awards and 230 physician recipients were included in the analysis. A total of 159 (69.1%) men physicians and 71 (30.9%) women physicians received awards. Overall, women physicians were underrepresented in recognition awards compared with AAMC benchmarks. Prestigious awards (defined as those that recognize a person's body of work over time) showed a similar disparity with 22 (30.1%) of 73 recipients being women. Men physicians were more likely to receive multiple awards.
Women physicians are underrepresented overall for recognition awards by pathology medical societies. Disparities are greater for prestigious awards. Further research is needed to better understand the reasons for these findings and how they affect women physicians' careers.
认可奖项可以树立医生的声誉并促进职业发展。我们假设与该专业的代表性相比，病理医学学会授予的女性医生奖项相对较少。
我们分析了三个普通病理学会网站上公开的在线医生获奖者信息（2015 年 1 月至 2021 年 12 月）。获奖者的性别通过代词使用、名字和照片来确定。代表性与美国医学协会（AAMC）2015 年和 2019 年的专业数据进行了比较，数据显示 2015 年至少有 36.7%的女性病理学家，而 2019 年最多有 43.4%。
共纳入 26 项奖项和 230 名医生获奖者。共有 159 名（69.1%）男性医生和 71 名（30.9%）女性医生获得了奖项。总体而言，与 AAMC 基准相比，女性医生在认可奖项中的代表性不足。享有盛誉的奖项（定义为表彰一个人多年来的工作成就）也存在类似的差距，其中 73 名获奖者中有 22 名（30.1%）为女性。男性医生更有可能获得多项奖项。
总体而言，病理医学学会授予的女性医生认可奖项相对较少。享有盛誉的奖项差距更大。需要进一步研究以更好地了解这些发现的原因以及它们如何影响女性医生的职业发展。
