Gender distribution among geriatricians: perspective from an ageing and developing country.
Female
Geriatricians
Medical societies
Journal
European geriatric medicine
ISSN: 1878-7649
Titre abrégé: Eur Geriatr Med
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101533694
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2022
08 2022
Historique:
received:
08
02
2022
accepted:
30
03
2022
pubmed:
17
4
2022
medline:
18
8
2022
entrez:
16
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Geriatrician numbers are increasing year by year in Turkey. We aimed to obtain information on licensed geriatricians, trainees, and board of directors of the societies in Turkey and compare this information with other countries' data. The study was conducted as a cross-sectional study. The gender, institution, and title of licensed geriatricians and trainees were documented by scanning websites of university, training and research, state hospitals, and the website of Academic Geriatrics Association. Information about the board of directors of the societies was obtained from the websites of the societies. The last day for data inclusion was August 31, 2021. There were 90 licensed geriatricians and 77 trainees in Turkey as of 31 August 2021. While 52.2% (n = 47) of licensed geriatricians were female, the ratio of females among trainees was 76.6% (n = 59). The ratio of females among trainees was statistically higher than licensed geriatricians (p = 0.001). Females constitute 88.9% of the board of directors of the Academic Geriatrics Association and this ratio was higher than the ratio of females on the board of directors of local and international journals. Best of our knowledge, our study is the first to examine the gender distribution in geriatrics. The dominance of females in geriatrics is very important in countries where geriatrics is relatively newly established as even countries with a deep-rooted history and structure in geriatrics are trying to increase the number of female geriatricians under their new administrations.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35428970
doi: 10.1007/s41999-022-00644-2
pii: 10.1007/s41999-022-00644-2
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
999-1003Commentaires et corrections
Type : ErratumIn
Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to European Geriatric Medicine Society.
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