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Statistics
According
to UCAS, in 2011
55% of people accepted on to medical degree courses in the UK were women. In 2011, women made up only 8.7 % of consultant surgeons in England. The
increased proportion of female medical students appears not be translating
through into a similarly increased proportion of women surgeons.
However,
training in surgery can take around 10 years after graduation, so we would
expect it to take sometime for all these new female doctors to train and become
consultants. In 2011, 26% of surgical trainees were women. The proportion of
women surgeons has continued to rise for many years, and we see no reason as to
why this would slow down.
Women
are represented in all nine surgical specialities and at all levels within a
surgical career. Paediatric surgery has the highest proportion of women
surgeons, with 22%, plastic surgery and oral and maxillo facial surgery also
have higher proportions of women surgeons, with 16 % and 13% respectively.
The
most popular specialty among women surgeons is general surgery, with 37%.
This is unsurprising, as general surgery is by far the largest of the surgical
specialties. Similarly, trauma and orthopaedic surgery is another popular
choice for women surgeons; 15% of women surgeons choose this specialty.
More
detail on the numbers of women in surgery is available from the WinS office, or from the NHS Information Centre.
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