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Benjamin Partiali1, Sandra Oska2, Ross Benjamin Touriel2
1Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, Michigan, USA partiali@oakland.edu.
Background:
Although women make up a substantial portion of the workforce in emergency medicine, they remain under-represented in academia.
Methods:
This study investigates trends in the representation of female speakers at the American College of Emergency Physicians scientific assembly-the largest academic emergency medicine conference in the world. Publication profiles, speaking duration and gender composition of speakers were collected and compared over a 3-year period.
Results:
The authors described increased representation of female speakers at the conference from 2016 to 2018, as well as an upward trend in women's actual speaking time.
Conclusion:
This upward trend in women's representation may translate to more opportunities for female engagement in academic emergency medicine. Despite the increasing representation of women, male speakers outnumbered female speakers all 3 years, demonstrating that a speaker gender gap persists in academic emergency medicine.
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