Gender bias may hamper evaluations of female emergency medicine residents

Implicit gender bias has long been suspected in many medical training programs, but until recently has been difficult to study objectively. Now, for the first time, a nationally standardized milestone evaluation system for emergency medicine residents is shining a light on these potential biases. In a new study, researchers found that although male and female emergency medicine specialists start off residency on an equal playing field, by the end of the three-year training program male residents...