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Table 1 Pooled data on female trainees and specialist representation, and membership of critical care societies, in intensive care medicine from different geographic regions

From: Women in Intensive Care study: a preliminary assessment of international data on female representation in the ICU physician workforce, leadership and academic positions

Region/country

Time period

Proportion of female trainees/specialists in the workforce

North America

 Canada (https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/news/lives2017-is-there-a-critical-care-gender-gap) [32]

2015–2016

26.2% specialists

35% University of Toronto Paediatric and Adult CCM faculty

 USA (https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/news/lives2017-is-there-a-critical-care-gender-gap)

2011–2015

40% physicians who wrote American Board of Internal Medicine CCM certification examination

South America

 Argentina [33]

2010

43% physicians who completed CCM training

 Brazil [34]

2012

30.2% of specialists in ICM were women

Europe

 France (https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/news/lives2017-is-there-a-critical-care-gender-gap)

2012–2016

35% critical care trainees

 Ireland [35] a

2015

31.7% of specialists were women

 Scandinavia (https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/news/lives2017-is-there-a-critical-care-gender-gap)

2001–2017

42% enrolled in Scandinavian European Diploma in CCM programme

 Spain [36]

2014

Femininity indexb in critical care medicine 0.08

 UK (https://healthmanagement.org/c/icu/news/lives2017-is-there-a-critical-care-gender-gap)

2015

33% physicians practising anaesthetics/CCM; 41% in age < 40 years group

Asia

 China

2017

46% Chinese Society of CCM members

 Indiac

2015–2017

32% trainees taking CCM—Part 2 examination

20% college of CCM members

 Israel [37] a

2011

22% of specialists were women

Africa

 Mozambique, Guinea and Cape Verde [38]d

2015

60% anaesthesiology and 29% internal medicine

Oceania

 New Zealand [39]

2012

30% of trainees and 18% of specialists were women.

  1. In regions where clear numbers of trainees and specialists were not available, we have provided other relevant data relating to female participation in the ICM workforce. CCM critical care medicine
  2. aIn a number of countries, intensive or critical care medicine does not exist as an independent specialty. Patients are often managed by anaesthesiologists or internists and those figures have been reported when intensive or critical care medicine were not explicitly stated in the reports
  3. bRatio between the number of women and men in permanent medical positions in the specialties throughout the study period
  4. cPersonal correspondence with Dr Praveen Jain, Chairman, College of Critical Care Medicine, India
  5. dGrouped data reported for the three countries
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