Objective: This study aims to summarize the evidence concerning the barriers that exist to
the career progression of women in surgery and to provide potential solutions to overcome …

Social media serves as a tool to fill gaps in current efforts to promote women in
cardiothoracic surgery, and, given its global reach, may be a particularly effective modality …

Background Previous investigations have revealed significant gender disparities in the
academic arenas of cardiothoracic surgery. However, the status of gender representation in …

Background Women continue to comprise a small minority of cardiothoracic surgeons.
Representation of women in areas of academic achievement has not been well …

As part of the response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic,
cardiothoracic training programs quickly transitioned midinterview season toward a virtual …

In a recent informal survey of surgeons, when asked to describe their Millennial trainees,
common responses range from “entitled,”“lazy,” and “unable to take criticism” to “socially …

Background The Thoracic Surgery Social Media Network (TSSMN) is a social media
collaborative formed in 2015 by The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and The Journal of Thoracic …

Objective To explore how social media could be utilised to influence an individual's
motivation to pursue a neurosurgical career, an emerging topic area. The focus of this study …

Objective As the specialty of cardiothoracic surgery turns the corner into its second century
of existence, there has been an uptick in the number of women and underrepresented …

Social media has become a permeating form of communication with billions of daily users.
Twitter in particular has become a tool for the surgical community to engage with other …