Faculty Profile Research Articles

Mapping Students' Decision Making Process across University Ranking Parameters: A Quantitative Study

The current paper maps the dimensions of prospective student's expectations and already extant ranking parameters for higher education established by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in India. A sample of 618 undergraduate students between 17-27 years completed a data sheet capturing their expectations from a higher education institute on 23 parameters. To obtain results, these parameters were compartmentalized based on the five parameters of the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). One-way ANOVA indicated a significant difference among these parameters. Further analysis showed that location of the university, placement and career assistance, faculty profiles, research and internship opportunities, international exposure, course availability, and scholarships are of utmost importance for students. Qualitative analysis indicated a preference for semester exchange and international exposure programs along with research opportunities to be important for students. There was an equivalent preference for places namely, Europe, United States, Canada and Australia which were prospective choices for students to pursue their higher studies.

Do's and Don'ts of the Virtual Interview: Perspectives From Residency and Fellowship Applicants.

Do's and Don'ts of the Virtual Interview: Perspectives From Residency and Fellowship Applicants.

SKDI-Based Needs Analysis for Designing English for Students of Medicine in Indonesia

Abstract. This longitudinal study aims to seek for solutions concerning the teaching and learning English at the Faculty of Medicine University of Mataram (UNRAM). The first year of the study is emphasized on the outcomes of needs analysis, which encompasses the Present Situation Analysis (PSA), the Target Situation Analysis (TSA), and the Learning Situation Analysis (LSA). Various data were collected form the documents of Standar Kompetensi Dokter Indonesia (SKDI) a.k.a. Competency Standards of Medical Doctors in Indonesia, the Graduates Profile of Faculty of Medicine UNRAM and the documents of student English proficiency levels within the last 5 years. Other sources of data were taken from a number of focused group discussions and in-depth interviews with students, alumni, subject specialists, management of Block, and various techniques. The data were then analyzed descriptively and qualitatively. Findings of the study show that the level of English of students at Medical Faculty was still far from being adequate to meet the SKDI. As such, three learning goals were generated from this study, i.e. the short-tem, mid-term, and long-term goals. The study suggests that to bridge the gap, the Faculty of Medicine needs to develop a number of language programs to prepare these students to achieve competencies that meet the standard of Graduate Profile and SKDI.

Research policy redirection based on analysis of target- setting and accomplishment trends in a Philippine State University

Objectives: To examine the targets and accomplishments of Eastern Samar State University (ESSU) with respect to performance indicators of Major Final Outputs (MFO) in Research and Development Services. Methods:Documentary analyses were done in order to comparatively examine the trends in targets and accomplishments of the university in the past three years. Moreover, faculty profile was analyzed in order to gauge the number of those who are actively engaged in research versus the number of actually required as set by governing policies. The corpora of analysis covered the university’s accomplishments from 2016-2018 in terms of: (1) number of completed researches, (2) number of research outputs utilized by the industry, and (3) number of research publications. Findings: Results have indicated that while 100% accomplishments in number of completed researches was recorded in 2017-2018 and with a +2 variance during 2016-2017, negative variances (-29.42%, -48.61%) were recorded in 2017 and 2018 in terms of research publications. Meanwhile, increments have been increasing in the past three years but have not been consistently projected. In addition, only 43% among the required faculty members have been active in research undertaking resulting to majority of accomplishments emanating from lower ranking faculty. Implications: From these results, redirection of regulatory policies addressing issues on faculty engagement, target setting, and productivity were undertaken. Keywords: Research productivity; research management; Eastern Samar State University; research performance; research indicator

Using Quality Improvement Principles to Redesign a Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship Program Website

Websites are primary sources of information for prospective trainees. However, little is known regarding the information deemed most important to cardiothoracic (CT) surgery interviewees when evaluating a program. The objectives of this study were to (1) report informational content important to CT surgery interviewees on a fellowship website and (2) improve the quality of a specific program's website. Study investigators conducted a survey of interviewees at a traditional 2-year CT surgery fellowship program. Questions were asked to elicit what information interviewees considered important to include in a program website and to identify gaps in the website's content. After administering the survey to 2018 fellowship interviewees, the website was redesigned, and the survey was readministered to 2019 fellowship interviewees. A total of 49 interviewees completed the survey (response rate, 90.7%); 45 (91.8%) of these interviewees had previously visited the program's website. Interviewees reported that the most important information they sought when accessing fellowship websites included faculty profiles (n= 47), rotation schedules (n= 33), current fellows' profiles (n= 29), and past fellows' profiles (n= 26). The website was revamped to include content across each of these domains. After website redesign, there was significant improvement in interviewees reporting that they found the information they sought (mean score, 3.56 to 4.64; P < .001) and that the website was useful (mean score, 3.67 to 4.77; P < .001) compared with the previous year. CT surgery fellowship websites are accessed by the majority of interviewees and are a critical source of program information. Optimizing website design and content on the basis of survey feedback objectively improved the usefulness of the program website to interviewees.

Commitment to the profession of ELT and an organization: A profile of expat faculty in South Korea

Despite its attention in the field of education, occupational commitment has received little attention in language teaching research. To address this gap, the study generates an occupational commitment profile of expatriate English language teachers and investigates how commitment relates to their age, sex, teaching experience, and qualifications. Eighty-two native English-speaking teachers at a private university in South Korea participated in the study by completing a survey measuring their affective, continuance, and normative commitment to the profession of English language teaching (ELT) and to their workplace. The descriptive results indicated that the sample had high affective commitment to the profession of ELT but low overall commitment to their organization. Results from MANCOVA, which controlled for the covariates of age and sex, indicated that respondents with teacher qualifications from their home countries tended to have higher levels of affective and normative commitment to the profession of ELT and to their workplace than respondents without teacher qualifications. However, no differences in commitment were found between respondents with ELT qualifications and respondents without ELT qualifications, nor were any differences found in commitment associated with ELT experience. Because affective-normative dominant profiles are associated with better workplace outcomes, such as effort given to an organization and lower turnover intentions, further consideration of this finding should be of high priority in language teacher commitment research.

The Changing Face of Academic Surgery: Overrepresentation of Women among Surgeon-Scientists with R01 Funding

There has been a recent focus on sex-based disparities within the field of academic surgery. However, the proportion of female surgeons conducting NIH-funded research is unknown. The NIH RePORTER (Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results) was queried for R01 grants from surgery departments for which the principal investigator (PI) had a primary medical degree, as of October 2018. Characteristics of the PI and their respective grants were collected. Institutional faculty profiles were reviewed for PI and departmental characteristics. PIs were stratified by sex and compared using standard univariate statistics. There were a total of 212 R01 grants in surgery departments held by 159 PIs. Of these, 26.4% (n= 42) of R01-funded surgeons were female compared with the reported 19% of academic surgery female faculty (as reported by the Association of American Medical Colleges; p= 0.02). Women with R01 grants were more likely to be first-time grant recipients with no concurrent or previous NIH funding (21.4% vs 8.6%; p= 0.03) and less likely to have a previous R01 or equivalent grant (54.8% vs 73.5%; p= 0.03). Women were more likely to be from departments with a female surgery chair (31.0% vs 13.7%; p= 0.01) or a department with > 30% female surgeons (35.0% vs 18.2%; p= 0.03). Although female surgeons remain a minority in academic surgery, they hold a greater than anticipated proportion of NIH funding, with a high number of first-time grants, forming a crucial component of the next generation of surgeon-scientists.

A 30-year analysis of National Institutes of Health–funded cardiac transplantation research: Surgeons lead the way

ObjectivesObtaining National Institutes of Health funding for heart transplant research is becoming increasingly difficult, especially for surgeons. We sought to determine the impact of National Institutes of Health–funded cardiac transplantation research over the past 30 years. MethodsNational Institutes of Health Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results was queried for R01s using 10 heart transplant–related terms. Principal Investigator, total grant funding amount, number of publications, and citations of manuscripts were collected. A citation-based Grant Impact Metric was assigned to each grant: sum of citations for each manuscript normalized by the funding of the respective grant (per $100K). The department and background degree(s) (MD, PhD, MD/PhD) for each funded Principal Investigator were identified from institutional faculty profiles. ResultsA total of 321 cardiac transplantation R01s totaling $723 million and resulting in 6513 publications were analyzed. Surgery departments received more grants and more funding dollars to study cardiac transplantation than any other department (n = 115, $249 million; Medicine: n = 93, $208 million; Pathology: 26, $55 million). Surgeons performed equally well compared with all other Principal Investigators with respect to Grant Impact Metric (15.1 vs 20.6; P = .19) and publications per $1 million (7.5 vs 6.8; P = .75). Finally, all physician-scientists (MDs) have a significantly higher Grant Impact Metric compared with nonclinician researchers (non-MDs) (22.3 vs 16.3; P = .028). ConclusionsSurgeon-scientists are equally productive and impactful compared with nonsurgeons despite decreasing funding rates at the National Institutes of Health and greater pressure from administrators to increase clinical productivity.

Sex Distribution of Editorial Board Members Among Emergency Medicine Journals

Previous studies have demonstrated that a sex disparity exists in the editorial boards of select specialties. However, there are limited data with respect to emergency medicine. We seek to determine the sex distribution of editors in chief and editorial board members among emergency medicine journals. In this cross-sectional survey, we compiled a list of all emergency medicine journals, using the Scimago Journal & Country Rank on August 13, 2019. We excluded journals that were no longer published, were not emergency medicine journals, had rotating editorial boards for each issue, or had no first names listed. We obtained the sex and editorial board role by using publicly available data on the journal Web sites. We assigned sex according to knowledge of the member or his or her online faculty profile and used the Genderize program (Genderize.io, Roskilde, Denmark) when sex could not be determined with the above-mentioned approach. We report descriptive statistics for the categoric data, stratified by position (editor in chief, editorial board member, social media editor, resident/fellow member) and country. We identified 73 journals in Scimago; 37 met inclusion criteria, with data available to determine the sex in 99.5% of cases. There were 46 total editors in chief, with only 4 (8.7%) being women. Of 1,477 total editorial board members, only 241 were women (16.3%), with a range of 0% to 33.3% per journal. We found that 28.6% of social media editors (2/7) at 4 journals and 70% of resident or fellow editors (7/10) at 5 journals were women. There is a notable sex disparity among emergency medicine journals' editors in chief and editorial board members. Efforts should be made to improve sex distribution among editorial boards.

Abstract 15: First Job and Promotion: Is There an Internal Bias in Academic Plastic Surgery Employment?

Background: Following completion of training, a physician’s training institution has a lasting impact on career trajectory. Training program influence on first job placement and academic promotions remain uncertain in academic plastic surgery. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of training and internal bias in academic plastic surgery employment and promotion. Methods: Academic plastic surgery faculty were identified through all ACGME-accredited residency training programs. Online faculty profiles and other public websites were used to gather faculty demographics. Analysis examined the impact of internal recruitment bias on first job employment, training history on institutional leadership promotion, and alumni effect on academic employment. Results: 931 academic plastic surgeons were identified. For assistant professors that graduated in the past 3 years, 38.6% practice at their training institution. Of the 229 institutional leaders, 31.5% of Chairs, 39.6% of Residency Directors, and 37.5% of Fellowship Directors were internal hires. The top 5 programs that have the most faculty who trained there are Harvard, USC, UCLA, University of Michigan and Albert Einstein. Overall, 54% of plastic surgery departments employ 2 or more faculty who share a common external training program. Those top 5 programs are Methodist Houston, Hofstra, Stanford, Wisconsin, USC. Conclusion: The study highlights that an internal bias exists in the recruitment for first jobs and leadership promotions. However, a clear bias of internal hiring exists at several institutions. In addition, an alumni effect was identified, where some programs have a bias of hiring faculty who trained at the same external institution.

Trends in Gender and Racial Profiles of US Academic Radiology Faculty.

To evaluate gender and racial profiles of US academic radiology faculty. This is a retrospective analysis of the American Association of Medical College database of radiology faculty members from 2006 to 2017 by academic rank, chair position, race or ethnicity, and gender. The data were described with annual proportions and average annual counts and fit to a Poisson regression model. Comparison data were taken from American Association of Medical College on matriculants at US medical schools and from ACGME on radiology residents. Women increased significantly in the ranks of professor by 4.5%, associate professor by 4.8%, and assistant professor by 4.8% (P < .05). Asian and multiple race non-Hispanic radiologists increased in the rank of professor by 5.9% and 3.1%, respectively (P < .05). Among department chairs, only women and Asian faculty increased by 6.4% and 7.5%, respectively (P < .05). The proportion of women chairs increased from 10.0% (19 of 191) in 2006 to 17.4% (39 of 224) in 2017. Black and Hispanic chairs collectively represented less than 10% of the total chairs every year. The significant percent annual increase in women faculty in academic ranks and chair positions suggests that the radiology faculty is becoming more diverse. However, the decreasing proportion of women with increasing academic ranks within each year of the study period suggests attrition or lack of promotion of women radiology faculty. The disparity in black and Hispanic faculty members and chairs suggests that emphasis should continue to be placed on tailored recruitment.

Are we represented as who we are? An assessment of library faculty online profiles within the City University of New York

Academic librarians have been wrestling with faculty status and rank for many decades and their dual identities as professionals and faculty made their identity representations in the online profile environment designed by colleges and universities even more complicated. Misrepresentation or insufficient representation of academic librarians' identities could lead to jeopardy of their public images within colleges and universities, or even trigger suspicion that academic librarians bring an impediment to academic standards by achieving less or none. Therefore, this study surveyed library faculty's online profiles within the libraries of the City University of New York and tried to assess whether library faculty are represented as who they are. The results revealed three categories of profiles: Business-Card Profiles, Quasi-Faculty Profiles, and Full-Level Faculty Profiles, which brought out the discussion about business identification, the creative Me, and the collective We, as well as their relations to institutional culture.

Chair Agency, Chair Preparation, and Academic Supports in Educational Leadership Doctoral Programs in the United States

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this exploratory qualitative case study was to understand dissertation chair agency, chair preparation, and academic supports provided by experienced Educational Leadership Ed.D. dissertation chairs in the United States. Background: Previous research has identified attrition rates of 50-60 percent in education doctoral programs. This research helps identify the faculty profiles and academic supports provided by Educational Leadership faculty who have served on successful dissertation committees. Understanding these findings may help to improve retention and completion in other doctoral programs. Methodology: This was an exploratory qualitative case study. Ten doctoral faculty who have successfully chaired 419 Ed.D. Educational Leadership dissertations at accredited U.S. colleges and universities were interviewed. Data were analyzed using the constant comparative method. Contribution: The findings from this study contribute to the body of knowledge on doctoral retention and dissertation completion by providing information on promising practices from the perspective of dissertation chairs. Findings: While successful dissertation chairs exhibited expertise as researchers, seven of the ten participants reported that they had limited training for chairing dissertations. Academic supports included coursework that was organized coherently with a focus on opportunities for substantive feedback, writing support and research methodology. Recommendations for Practitioners: Dissertation chairs should utilize their agency to ensure that the program has the proper resources to support doctoral education. This includes adequate writing support for graduate students, courses taught by faculty who are engaged in research and understand the requirements for completing a dissertation, and protecting faculty time so that they are able to provide students substantive feedback within coursework and at the dissertation phase. Recommendation for Researchers: Researchers should continue to explore the causes of attrition in doctoral programs and identify specific actions that can be taken to improve program completion rates. Impact on Society: Increasingly U.S. institutions of higher learning are being called to validate their success and improve retention rates. Understanding the faculty profiles and academic supports utilized by successful doctoral faculty has the potential to improve retention and thereby increase completion rates and consequentially alleviate the stressors that ABD students experience. Future Research: Future research could focus on expanding the findings of this study by exploring the perspectives of faculty based on institution type and examining how socio-emotional factors such as student-student and faculty-student relationships are intentionally established in programs with high graduation rates.

Dentist's skills of behavior management: A study of knowledge, attitude, and practice of dentists in managing child patient

Context: Dental specialists are relied upon to analyze and deal with all the dental diseases successfully that is inside the information and abilities procured during dental education. However, with regard to child patients, the dentist plays a unique role. Yet, without legitimate conduct of behavior management technique (BMT), there would not be successful treatment outcomes. Aim: Therefore, the study aimed to explore dental specialist's skills in dental fear and to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices of dental professionals in West Bengal giving treatment to pediatric patients. Materials and Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted among dentists working in West Bengal providing treatment to pediatric patients. A structured English questionnaire intended with the end goal of this investigation was utilized. The gathered information comprises awareness and application of various BMTs while attending a child dental patient among dental practitioners; their sociodemographics; the level of professional training; working experience; faculty profile furthermore their perspectives concerning the improvement of practicing. Utilizing SPSS program version 18, frequency distributions and cross-tabulations analyses were performed. Results: Younger dentists were more aware (82.8%) about universally applied BMTs as compared to older (75%) (P = 0.6855). “Tell show do” were considered to be the most preferable technique (81.8%) and “Parental presence and absence” was the second most preferred technique (73.8%). Conclusion: As the degree of adequacy were marked “average” by the dental specialist in treating child patients. Subsequently, dental education ought to incorporate guidelines and techniques to prepare the impending dentists for an amazing practice in pediatric dentistry.

Who mentors undergraduate student researchers? An analysis of faculty involvement at a four-year university

ABSTRACTIn this study, we investigated a profile of faculty who mentor undergraduate researchers at a four-year Hispanic-serving, public research university. Six variables were investigated: ethnicity, gender, age, tenure status, teaching evaluations, and research productivity. Data were compiled from institutional databases. Findings showed a greater percentage of tenured faculty mentoring undergraduate researchers while the percent of minority UR faculty mentors was consistent with institutional percentages. Additionally, findings included a higher percentage of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Undergraduate Research (UR) underrepresented minority faculty mentors compared to STEM Institution (INST) underrepresented minority faculty. For research productivity, UR faculty mentor funding comprised 28.0% of all external grant awards and 36.0% of all external funding during the sampling period. The majority funding for INST and UR faculty were found to be in the STEM disciplines. These findings provide evidence of potential predictors to describe UR faculty mentor profiles and can be considered important information for determining future educational policies and practices.

Web and Social Media Approach to Marketing of Engineering Courses in India

The Indian software industry is competing with the developed world counterparts and the same is true for other sectors like civil, chemical, mechanical and electronic equipment, etc. This success of the Indian industry is attributed by the vital input of the engineering education. The engineering education sector in India generates a storing pool of engineers for the industry. On the other hand, the higher education sector is taking a paradigm shift in India with many private universities and colleges coming into existence. These colleges are having a tough challenge to satisfy student's interest, while maintaining good infrastructure, good number of students, superior faculty profiles and excellent linkages with industry. The present work illustrates the current scenario of engineering education in India including the closure of a number of courses and colleges due to industry and market constraints. Creative skills used by private colleges to improve their marketing and advertising efforts include the analysis of their own websites and social media, tracking third party websites and then planning the content accordingly. All these web and social media trends have been presented in this paper considering the present day engineering education scenario. Challenges and opportunities available for this web and data analytics approach have also been presented in this work.

Analysis of Trends in the Selection and Production of U.S. Academic Plastic Surgery Faculty.

Purpose:In academic plastic surgery, there is a paucity of data examining the relationship between program rank, faculty training history, and production of academic program graduates. The purpose of this study is to determine objective faculty characteristics that are associated with a high program reputation.Methods:Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited integrated Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS) programs were ranked using Doximity and divided into Top-quartile programs and Other programs. Accredited medical schools were ranked using U.S. News and World Report. Individual faculty profiles were reviewed on program websites for information on prior training.Results:Seventy-nine programs with 712 faculty were identified and objectively analyzed. Compared to Other PRS programs, Top-quartile programs had a higher proportion of faculty that trained at Top-quartile residency programs (P < 0.0001) and Top-quartile medical schools (P < 0.0001). Top-quartile programs also had the highest proportion of faculty that trained at the same institution for fellowship (P = 0.0001), residency (P = 0.03), medical school (P = 0.4), or any prior training (medical school, residency, or fellowship) (P = 0.002). Top-quartile programs were associated with the largest total faculty size (P < 0.0001) and the largest number of graduates entering the field of academic plastic surgery (P < 0.0001).Conclusions:Program reputation is associated with PRS faculty selection and production. Top-ranked programs are more likely to have faculty that previously trained at the same institution or at top-ranked programs. Top-ranked programs are more likely to graduate residents that will become academic plastic surgeons.

Who is My Professor?

As technology has advanced, faculty members have many ways to connect with current and prospective students. Yet, no extant research has examined online faculty profiles on institutional (.edu) websites. To inform graduate student choice literature, we examined a random sample of 1,500 online faculty profiles across 500 U.S. graduate programs. Findings suggest assistant and associate professors publish the most informative online profiles, whereas private for-profit professors and lecturers publish the least informative profiles. In addition, zero faculty members self-identified their pronouns, race and ethnicity, or their first-generation college student status in their biographical statement. Implications for research and practice in U.S. and international contexts are addressed.

ProUni e retornos de capitais para instituições privadas de ensino superior

A literatura sobre ações afirmativas converge sobre a importância de políticas reparadoras para grupos sujeitos a desigualdades históricas, em virtude da relação negativa entre os seus antecedentes e as possibilidades de ingresso e permanência no Ensino Superior. No Brasil, uma das principais políticas nessa área é o Programa Universidade para Todos (ProUni), que oferta bolsas em instituições privadas de ensino superior (IPES). O objetivo deste artigo é analisar se, no caso específico dos cursos de Direito, existe a relação entre antecedentes de desvantagem e desempenho acadêmico, bem como se há retornos, além do capital econômico, para as IPES em manter alunos ProUni. Para isso, foi criado um modelo de regressão linear com dados do Enade, usando como variável dependente a nota no exame, e como variáveis independentes a proporção de alunos ProUni no curso, o perfil socioeconômico médio da turma, e o perfil docente. O modelo confirmou as relações intuitivas entre as variáveis de antecedentes e desempenho, e identificou relação positiva entre a presença de bolsistas nos cursos e o resultado no Enade. Assim, a partir do modelo e da bibliografia especializada, observou-se que, nos cursos de direito, as IPES obtêm retornos consideravelmente amplos, tanto de capital econômico, em virtude da estrutura de financiamento da política pública; quanto de capital simbólico, pela relação positiva entre presença de alunos ProUni no curso e a nota no ENADE.

Chair Versus Chairman: Does Orthopaedics Use the Gendered Term More Than Other Specialties?

Orthopaedics is the least gender-diverse medical specialty. Research suggests that the use of gendered language can contribute to workforce disparity and that gender-neutral language supports the inclusion and advancement of women, but the degree to which gender-neutral language is used by academic departments in what typically is a department's highest position (department chair) has not been characterized. (1) Is the proportion of department websites that use the term chairman (as opposed to chair) greater in orthopaedics than in five other surgical and medical specialties? (2) Are departments led by chairs who are women less likely to use "chairman" than those led by men, and does this vary by specialty? Seven hundred fourteen official websites of orthopaedic, neurosurgery, general surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology departments affiliated with 129 allopathic medical schools were screened. Any use of the term chairman on title pages, welcome messages, and faculty profile pages was identified using a Boyer-Moore string-search algorithm and terms were classified based on their location on the site. The overall use of the term chairman was compared by specialty and gender of the chair. Sixty percent of orthopaedic department websites (71 of 119) used the term chairman at least once, a proportion higher than that of pediatrics (36% [46 of 128]; OR 0.38; 95% CI, 0.23 to 0.63; p < 0.001), internal medicine (31% [38 of 122]; OR 0.030; 95% CI, 0.18 to 0.53; p < 0.001), and obstetrics and gynecology (29% [37 of 126]; OR 0.28; 95% CI, 0.17 to 0.48; p < 0.001), but no different than that of neurosurgery (57% [54 of 94]; OR 0.91; 95% CI, 0.52 to 1.6; p = 0.74) and general surgery (55% [69 of 125]; OR 0.83; 95% CI, 0.50 to 1.4; p = 0.48). Across disciplines, departments whose chairs were women were much less likely to use the term chairman than departments whose chairs were men (14% [17 of 122] versus 50% [297 of 592]; OR 0.16; 95% CI, 0.09 to 0.28; p < 0.001). The frequent use of the term chairman in orthopaedics, coupled with the preference of women to use the term chair, suggests considerable room for growth in the use of gender-equal language in orthopaedics. Our current efforts to increase the number of women in orthopaedics may be undermined by gendered language, which can create and reinforce gendered culture in the field. Electing to use gender-neutral leadership titles, while a relatively small step in the pursuit of a more gender-equal environment, presents an immediate and no-cost way to support a more inclusive culture and counteract unconscious gender bias. Future studies should explore the individual attitudes of chairs regarding the use of gendered titles and identify additional ways in which biases may manifest; for example, the use of gendered language in interpersonal communications and the presence of unconscious bias in leadership evaluations. Continued efforts to understand implicit bias in orthopaedics can guide actionable strategies for counteracting gendered stereotypes of the specialty, in turn aiding initiatives to recruit and promote women in the field.