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Background: Over the last few decades, advances have been made regarding gender equality starting from medical students to trainees, to leadership in academics. The female representation in specialty academic conferences not only reflects the existing gender disparities in that specialty but also can influence young female trainees to join that field. Digestive Disease Week (DDW) is the premier digestive disease event.
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Women remain underrepresented in gastroenterology, especially advanced endoscopy. Women represent 30 % of general gastroenterology fellows; yet in 2019, only 12.8 % of fellows who matched into advanced endoscopy fellowship (AEF) programs were women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFASGE EndoVators Summit: simulators and the future of endoscopic training.
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Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
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