{"id":35321,"date":"2013-03-11T14:46:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T18:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=fellowship-training&p=35321"},"modified":"2013-03-12T14:34:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T18:34:14","slug":"diversity-in-cardiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2013\/03\/11\/diversity-in-cardiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity in Cardiology: Blogging from ACC.13"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several Cardiology Fellows who are attending ACC.13 in San Francisco this week are blogging for CardioExchange. The Fellows include\u00a0Tariq Ahmad<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Megan Coylewright<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Jeremiah Depta<\/a>,\u00a0Kumar Dharmarajan<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Payal Kohli<\/a><\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0and \u00a0Sandeep Mangalmurti<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0View the previous post\u00a0\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and the next one here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

If the people who attend ACC are a good representation of the cardiologists of the world, then we certainly are in need of more diversity. There are few women and minorities, especially at the leadership level.<\/p>\n

I would often get a sense of this during our conferences in fellowship, when the number of women were far outnumbered by the men, and sometimes we would have ratios of >15:1. Compared to other subspecialties of medicine, cardiology has longer training, and the work can be quite taxing, especially if one takes the invasive route and\/or wants to start a family.<\/p>\n

I feel a deep sense of respect and admiration of my female colleagues who juggle having children and caring for them while completing a challenging fellowship.<\/p>\n

Along with being a CardioExchange blogger, I also run the Duke cardiology fellowship blog. Therefore, I brought this issue up with one of my co-fellows, Dr. Prateeti Khazanie. We came up with the idea of interviewing some of the women who are \u201cgreats\u201d in cardiology<\/a> to get their perspective. The list of interviewees continues to grow, and we have already interviewed the likes of Drs. Lynn Stevenson, Maggie Redfield, Judith Hochman, and Mariell Jessup.<\/p>\n

What do you think the ACC can do to increase diversity?<\/p>\n

Instead of continuing to increase the years of training, should cardiologists try to make fellowship \u201csmarter\u201d so people from all backgrounds can join our ranks?<\/p>\n

More diversity in cardiology would surely lead to better care for our patients.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0<\/em>more of our ACC.13 coverage of late-breaking clinical trials, interviews with the authors of the most important research, and blogs from our fellows on the most interesting presentations at the meeting, check out our\u00a0Coverage Headquarters<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What can be done to increase the numbers of women and minorities at ACC.13 and in cardiology in general?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1711,195,1720,698],"class_list":["post-35321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-acc-13","tag-fellowship-training-2","tag-minorities","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}