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Progress with gender diversity in orthopaedics has been slow both in Australia and internationally. Research has shown there are clear advantages of a diverse physician population, not only in medicine and patient care but in commercial industry as well. The proportion of female orthopaedic surgeons – one underrepresented group – is increasing; however; the rate is slow compared to the growth in other surgical specialties.
Speakers and panellists discussed the barriers that women in orthopaedics encounter, and those that female medical students see as blocking their path to the specialty, and explored targeted efforts to promote gender diversity in orthopaedic surgery both within the Australian and international context.