Background:

While gender bias in medicine, including physician training, has been well described, less is known about gender bias in the selection process for post graduate residency training programs. This analysis reviews the potential role of gender on resident selection for an internal medicine residency program.

Methods:

File review and interview overall and component scores were analyzed based on the gender of the applicant. File review scores were further analyzed based on the reviewer’s gender.

Results:

Women applicants scored higher than men applicants on their file review. There were no differences in any one component score except for leadership in art. Women file reviewers scored applicants higher than men file reviewers, but there was no difference between gender scores. There was no difference in overall or component interview scores between men or women applicants. Scoring did not impact the expected rank performance of applicants based on gender at any stage of the selection process.

Conclusions:

While higher scores were observed in women applicants upon their file review, and women reviewers provided higher file review scores, this did not appear to impact the expected number of women and men applicants at each stage of the applicant process. This suggests a potential lack of gender bias at these stages of applicant selection.

中文翻译：

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申请人和审稿人性别对内科住院医师选择的影响

背景：

虽然医学中的性别偏见，包括医生培训，已经得到了很好的描述，但在研究生住院医师培训项目的选择过程中，人们对性别偏见知之甚少。该分析回顾了性别对内科住院医师计划住院医师选择的潜在作用。

方法：

根据申请人的性别分析文件审查和面试的整体和组成部分分数。根据审阅者的性别进一步分析文件审阅分数。

结果：

女性申请者的档案审查得分高于男性申请者。除了艺术方面的领导力外，任何一个组成部分的分数都没有差异。女性文件审查员对申请人的评分高于男性文件审查员，但性别分数之间没有差异。男性或女性申请者的整体或部分面试分数没有差异。在选拔过程的任何阶段，评分都不会影响基于性别的申请人的预期排名表现。

结论：

虽然在女性申请人的文件审查中观察到更高的分数，并且女性审查员提供了更高的文件审查分数，但这似乎并未影响申请流程每个阶段的女性和男性申请人的预期数量。这表明在申请人选择的这些阶段可能缺乏性别偏见。