Table 4.
Professorship Status by Specialty and Medical School Research Ranking
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Absolute Difference in Proportion
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| Anesthesiology | 723/3914 (18.5) | 151/1743 (8.7) | −9.8 | −3.4 (−5.2 to −1.5) |
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| Cardiology | 1044/3337 (31.3) | 115/659 (17.5) | −13.8 | −4.6 (−8.1 to −1.2) |
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| Emergency medicine | 330/2507 (13.2) | 56/1001 (5.6) | −7.6 | −2.5 (−4.6 to −0.4) |
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| Family medicine | 416/2208 (18.8) | 119/1587 (7.5) | −11.3 | −4.4 (−6.6 to −2.1) |
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| Gastroenterology | 519/1570 (33.1) | 44/417 (10.6) | −22.5 | −6.1 (−10.8 to −1.4) |
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| Hematology/oncology | 831/2199 (37.8) | 176/949 (18.5) | −19.3 | 0.2 (−2.0 to 3.2) |
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| Infectious disease | 501/1247 (40.2) | 118/729 (16.2) | −24.0 | −6.9 (−10.4 to −3.4) |
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| Internal medicine | 1131/5255 (21.5) | 303/3647 (8.3) | −13.2 | −3.9 (−5.3 to −2.5) |
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| Neurology | 946/2652 (35.7) | 161/1228 (13.1) | −22.6 | −5.1 (−7.7 to −2.5) |
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| Obstetrics and gynecology | 572/1864 (30.7) | 195/1958 (10.0) | −20.7 | −5.1 (−7.6 to −2.7) |
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| Orthopedic surgery | 571/2244 (25.4) | 26/233 (11.2) | −14.2 | −2.5 (−8.0 to −3.7) |
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| Other | 2700/7770 (34.7) | 583/3904 (14.9) | −19.8 | −3.2 (−4.7 to −1.6) |
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| Pathology | 826/2112 (39.1) | 262/1367 (19.2) | −19.9 | −6.3 (−9.0 to −3.7) |
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| Pediatrics | 1709/6252 (27.3) | 686/6144 (11.2) | −16.1 | −4.0 (−5.2 to −2.9) |
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| Psychiatry | 835/3003 (27.8) | 183/1786 (10.2) | −17.6 | −5.2 (−7.3 to −3.0) |
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| Radiology | 918/3573 (25.7) | 230/1430 (16.1) | −9.6 | −2.0 (−4.0 to 0.4) |
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| Surgery, general | 1117/3561 (31.4) | 115/894 (12.9) | −18.5 | −4.6 (−7.6 to −1.6) |
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| Surgery, subspecialty | 1665/5341 (31.2) | 100/788 (12.7) | −18.5 | −3.6 (−7.0 to −0.2) |
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| Ranked in top 20 in US | 5761/17 173 (33.5) | 1337/8893 (15.0) | −18.5 | −4.5 (−5.5 to −3.4) |
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| Not ranked in top 20 | 11 593/43 436 (26.7) | 2286/21 571 (10.6) | −16.1 | −3.8 (−4.5 to −3.2) |
Sample includes faculty of all ranks.
Presents estimates of the association between faculty rank and physician sex in each specialty, adjusting for age, years since residency, publications (total, as well as first and last author), number of NIH grants, whether a physician had conducted a clinical trial, and whether a physician was faculty at a top-20 US medical school in terms of US News and World Report 2013 medical school research ranking.
Subgroup analysis conducted among physician faculty and top-20 and non-top-20 schools in terms of medical school research ranking. For each group (top-20 vs not), we estimated the association between faculty rank and physician sex, adjusting for age, specialty, years since residency, publications (total, as well as first and last author), number of NIH grants, and whether a physician had conducted a clinical trial.