Bertram Häussler, Barbara Schmalfeldt, Senta Häussler, Angela Köninger, Stefan Loos, Gert Naumann, Anton Scharl, Christian J Thaler, Martin Weiss, Martin Albrecht
BACKGROUND: Recent years have seen a considerable shift from male doctors to female doctors in the field of gynecology. Female doctors are traditionally more involved with planning and maintaining their family. For gynecology, this could be associated with a risk that research activities will decrease, particularly if results are published in scientific journals. METHODS: In view of this shift, a comparative observational study was carried for 2022 in which 1306 publications were matched to 1786 female and male doctors reported on the websites of the 44 locations of university gynecology departments in Germany...
April 2024: Geburtshilfe und Frauenheilkunde