Becker's Healthcare March 3, 2025
Despite making up more than half of medical school students, women remain underrepresented in cardiology. Cleveland-based MetroHealth is working to change that.
Women outnumber men in medical school for the sixth year in a row, and they now make up 54% of medical students. There are three specialties that female physicians tend to gravitate toward: pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology and dermatology.
But some systems are working to attract more women to historically male-dominated specialties.
In MetroHealth’s cardiology department, there are seven female cardiologists among 21 staff members, with two more women joining soon. This means about 40% of the department is women. Of those women, five of the seven are in leadership roles.
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