CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Endosc Int Open 2021; 09(04): E505-E506
DOI: 10.1055/a-1339-1432
Editorial

Gender disparities in advanced endoscopy fellowship: Women in Endoscopy (WIE) perspective

Uzma D. Siddiqui
1   University of Chicago Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics (CERT), Chicago, Illinois, United States
,
Jeanin E. van Hooft
2   Leiden University Medical Center, Gastroenterology and Hepatology LUMC, Leiden, the Netherlands
,
Amrita Sethi
3   Columbia University Medical Center, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, New York, New York, United States
› Author Affiliations

As female therapeutic endoscopists and governing board members of Women in Endoscopy (WIE), our group applauds Yu, et al for their study examining “Gender Disparities in Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship” [1]. While this study focuses on advanced endoscopy fellowship programs utilizing the ASGE Match process in the United States, these results highlight the global issue of unequal gender representation in this field. The authors attempt to determine the various reasons as to why only 12.8 % of fellows that matched in advanced endoscopy fellowship (AEF) program in 2019.



Publication History

Article published online:
17 March 2021

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