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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Laryngoscope. 2018 Nov 8;129(3):627–633. doi: 10.1002/lary.27521

Table 2. Gini Coefficients across specialties:

The Gini coefficient ranges from 0 (perfect equality) to 1 (perfect inequality). Interview distributions were “more fair” when including only applicants who interviewed and also when comparing only U.S. Allopathic students.

All Applicants Only Applicants who Interviewed
Specialty Total U.S. Allopathic Total U.S. Allopathic
Otolaryngology 0.428 0.372 0.23 0.204
Orthopedic Surgery 0.519 0.46 0.27 0.242
Neurosurgery 0.528 0.393 0.232 0.159
Plastic Surgery 0.593 0.526 0.284 0.263
Diagnostic Radiology 0.599 0.545 0.3 0.215
Dermatology 0.6 0.545 0.336 0.311
Internal Medicine 0.718 0.576 0.403 0.204
General Surgery 0.742 0.635 0.369 0.201
Pathology 0.762 0.615 0.403 0.231
Family Medicine 0.843 0.706 0.432 0.251