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Gender Diversity in Orthopaedics

December 17, 2021December 15, 2024

Gender equity is a pressing human rights issue in many professional fields and medicine is no exception. Of the surgical specialties, orthopaedics has one of the lowest rates of women and has not made any substantial gains in gender parity over time. Currently, 12.6% of the orthopaedic surgeons in Canada are female, an increase from…

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Gender Diversity in Orthopaedics & the Canadian Orthopaedic Association

September 25, 2020December 15, 2024

Dr Laurie Hiemstra, Orthopaedic Surgeon and Director of Research at BSMF, discusses her work facilitating gender diversity, her leadership roles in the Canadian Orthopaedic Association (COA) and her 2022 COA Presidency as the first female leader of the Association.

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