Abdullah Talha Şimşek , Nur Topyalın , Neslihan Gökmen İnan , Fatih Çalış , Güliz Gültekin , Çimen Elias , Deniz Alyanak , İrem Nur Altun , Simge Sezgin , İsa Çınar , Melih Ramazan Parlak , Çağlar Bozdoğan , Tamer Tekin , Baha E. Adam , Müjgan Tez , Naci Balak
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Abstract
Objective
Neurosurgery is lagging behind other surgical subspecialties in the recruitment of a more diverse physician workforce. The objective of this study was to explore the positive and negative factors affecting women's choice to pursue a career in neurosurgery.
Methods
A self-administered questionnaire comprising 13 Likert-type questions was used to conduct this cross-sectional survey of medical students.
Results
A total of 266 medical students (147 females, 119 males) completed the questionnaire. Fewer female students (38%) than male students (45%) indicated that “neurosurgery is a demanding specialty for women” (P < 0.05). Furthermore, while 46% of the female students indicated that “women face inequality in neurosurgery,” only 20% of their male counterparts agreed with this statement (P < 0.001). In addition, 78% of the females disagreed with the assertion that women's physical endurance is insufficient for neurosurgery, but only 53% of the men expressed the same views (P < 0.001). Twenty-three percent of the male students and 29% of the female students perceived the prevalence of a boys' club mentality in neurosurgery (P < 0.05). Moreover, 35% of the female students agreed that female neurosurgeons experience the glass ceiling syndrome, while only 18% of the male students held this opinion (P < 0.001).
Conclusions
This study shows that students—regardless of gender—strongly believe neurosurgery residency training affects women's family lives more negatively than men's. While most participants rejected the idea that women lack the physical endurance for neurosurgery, female students perceived a glass ceiling and gender inequality in the field.
期刊介绍:
World Neurosurgery has an open access mirror journal World Neurosurgery: X, sharing the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.
The journal''s mission is to:
-To provide a first-class international forum and a 2-way conduit for dialogue that is relevant to neurosurgeons and providers who care for neurosurgery patients. The categories of the exchanged information include clinical and basic science, as well as global information that provide social, political, educational, economic, cultural or societal insights and knowledge that are of significance and relevance to worldwide neurosurgery patient care.
-To act as a primary intellectual catalyst for the stimulation of creativity, the creation of new knowledge, and the enhancement of quality neurosurgical care worldwide.
-To provide a forum for communication that enriches the lives of all neurosurgeons and their colleagues; and, in so doing, enriches the lives of their patients.
Topics to be addressed in World Neurosurgery include: EDUCATION, ECONOMICS, RESEARCH, POLITICS, HISTORY, CULTURE, CLINICAL SCIENCE, LABORATORY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, OPERATIVE TECHNIQUES, CLINICAL IMAGES, VIDEOS