Women in Cardiology

Women in Interventional Cardiology.

Women in Interventional Cardiology

Interventional cardiology requires extensive training, has unpredictable and long work hours, is physically and mentally demanding, and requires cognitive, technical, and leadership skills. For those that follow the calling, the rewards are immeasurable, improving and saving lives. I do not often think of myself as a minority, but as a female interventional cardiologist, and one of the few wome...

Women in cardiology: the US experience.

"You are not required to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to abstain from it.."-Rabbi Tarfon, Pirke Avot 2:16.

Women in cardiology – from utopia to reality

In the past, female physicians, especially cardiologists, were a rarity. The first physicians were officially trained only at the end of the 19th century. In the last decades of the 20th century, the number of women in medicine increased tremendously; however, the number of female cardiologists has remained low, especially in invasive cardiology. The reasons include the invasive character of th...

Women in cardiology: a UK perspective.

Women are particularly under-represented in cardiology in the UK, even though women outnumber men in admissions to medical school. Could this disparity be detrimental to the specialty in this country?