Personality of residents was also the most important factor perceived to affect residency education. For factors specifically related to gender, respondents who answered affirmatively to whether gender composition of residents affected selection of a program in making a rank list were more likely to also answer affirmatively to subsequent questions related to gender of program leadership (p<0.001) and gender composition of attending physicians (p<0.001).
The most important factors in creating a rank list were the personality of residents in the program, location, and facility type. Residents from 17 programs participated in the survey with an 18% response rate. This study is a follow-up to previous work, and a survey was used to assess current residents’ attitudes and perceptions on various factors including those relating to gender on creating rank lists as medical students and in perceived effects on residency education.Īn online survey consisting of Likert scale questions of a variety of factors influencing a student’s decision to create a rank list and in perceived effects on residency education was sent to current EM residents in 2020. Various factors may contribute to why fewer females choose the field of emergency medicine, such as existing presence of females in the specialty. Females comprise over half of medical school matriculants but only one-third of emergency medicine (EM) residents.
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