While female representation in orthopedics is still behind other fields in the healthcare industry, Nicole Lopez, MD, is hopeful for the future of increased representation. The number of female ...

The Built for Her Foundation has launched a national scholarship programme aimed at strengthening female representation in Nigeria’s healthcare workforce as part of a broader effort to close the ...

Although significant attention has been paid to supporting gender diversity in the physician workforce, we found that gender has a substantial impact on the experiences of female medical students as ...

Today, more women than men are entering medical school and pursuing a career in medicine. Who were some of the pioneering women physicians, and what challenges do contemporary women in medicine face?

When I was growing up, menstruation was called “the curse.” It was a curse – once used to enslave women, including barring co-educational pursuits. It took the medical research of one woman, Dr. Mary ...

Members of the all-female medical staff at the Heal Veterinary Clinic in Watertown, Massachusetts. Women now outnumber men in veterinary school by four to one. Credit: Lucy Lu for The Hechinger Report ...

Third-year Pathways MD student Emilie Baxter spent her first-year summer break at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital in ...

Jennifer Hunt, currently interim dean at the University of Florida College of Medicine, will begin her role at Dartmouth on ...