Trends of women in cardiovascular disease fellowships 2013-2022

Despite increasing representation of women in medical school and internal medicine residencies, women continue to account for a minority of trainees and practicing attendings within the field of cardiology. Publicly available data was analyzed to assess trends across the past decade of third year internal medicine residents, first year fellows in medicine subspecialties (including cardiology and its subspecialties), and compare this with applicant data to cardiology fellowships. Women continue to account for a minority of cardiology applicants (range 20%-27%) and first year fellows (range 20-29%), with trends toward slow improvement (+0.84%/year and +0.90%/year increases across the decade for cardiology fellowship applicants and first year fellows, respectively, P ≤ .001 for both).