Women in UK cardiology: report of a Working Group of the British Cardiac Society
Open Access
- 1 March 2005
- Vol. 91 (3) , 283-289
- https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2004.047340
Abstract
Although the total number of applications to medical school has not changed substantially in recent years, the proportion of female applicants has increased from 50.5% in 1996 to 58.8% in 2002 (table 1).1 Not only did more women than men apply for medical school in 2002 but proportionately more women were successful (60.4% v 55.3%) and there may now be positive selection bias in favour of women at the point of application. Thus, women applying to UK medical schools in 1996–7 were 1.57 times more likely to be offered a place than similarly qualified men.2Keywords
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