ADVANCE USER EXPERIENCE FROM MARCH

While female representation is increasing among general surgery residents over time, gender disparities persist at the faculty and leadership level in academic surgery. Prior studies have reported gender disparity in academic scholarship, award recognition, and leadership representation within the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES), as well as gender disparities in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) surgical subspecialty fellow enrollment. Given these previous findings, we aimed to evaluate gender representation within the United States AAES fellowship programs at the fellow, faculty, and program leadership levels... We have developed a NOTSS curriculum in cardiothoracic surgery with minimal costs and technology requirements that can be formally integrated into surgical training. While improvement in assessment scores was limited to leadership, fellows showed greater confidence across both cognitive and social skills following the curriculum...

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