Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California
Correspondence
Kirti Magudia, MD, PhD: Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, 1700 4th St, Byers Hall, Suite 102, San Francisco, CA 94158.
Department of Radiology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, California
Correspondence
Kirti Magudia, MD, PhD: Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, 1700 4th St, Byers Hall, Suite 102, San Francisco, CA 94158.
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Women are underrepresented in the radiology workforce and radiology leadership positions [1,2]. Although women make up 48% of medical students, only 27% of radiology residents are women, and only 13% of radiology leaders are women [3]. Recruitment, retention, and the success of women in radiology constitute important objectives for radiology departments because promotion of gender diversity contributes to their strength and quality of patient care [4,5]. In combination with strong female residency leadership, the creation of a departmentally sponsored Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) Women in Radiology (WIR) organization in 2015 has sustained and bolstered the recruitment of residency classes with an average proportion of greater than 40% women.
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Dr Magudia received salary support from NIH (Grant No.: NIBIB T32EB001631 ) during the study period for unrelated work. The Brigham & Women’s Hospital Women in Radiology Organization was supported by the Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Radiology. The other authors state that they have no conflict of interest related to the material discussed in this article.
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