BRITISH CARDIAC SOCIETY

Women in UK cardiology: report of a Working Group of the British Cardiac Society

A D Timmis, C Baker, S Banerjee, A L Calver, A Dornhorst, K M English, J Flint, M E Speechly-Dick, D Turner

British Cardiac Society, London, UK

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Professor Adam D Timmis
London Chest Hospital, Department of Cardiology, Bonner Road, London E2 9JX, UK; timmis@lch.demon.co.uk

Accepted 19 July 2004

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The first woman to appear on the British medical register was Elizabeth Blackwell in 1859, who had qualified earlier in New York. Later Elizabeth Garrett, disbarred like all women in the UK from attending medical school, passed examinations for the licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries and was admitted to the register in 1865. The call-up of doctors during the first world war allowed more women to enter the profession and by the mid 1940s they constituted 20% of all doctors. Thereafter there was little change for 30 years, when numbers of women entering UK medical schools started to increase to the point that they came to outnumber men during the 1990s. Despite this, women remain underrepresented in many hospital specialties, particularly cardiology, where they constitute only 16.8% of trainees and 7.4% of consultants. The failure of cardiology to attract such a large proportion of the talent pool prompted the . . . [Full text of this article]

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