re: Are there any male Dermatologists?

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Dermatology usually goes to the top of the class in Medical School


----Which is incorrect with data to support this statement.

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Sure, if you're trying to be a message board lawyer and nitpick semantics. I didn't mean the "top of the class" as in "only the #1 graduate gets Dermatology, nobody else, and they always select Dermatology."

The coveted specialties, of which Dermatology is one, tend to go to the people who get their first choice in specialties. Being in the top of the class helps with that.

Factor in that males gravitate heavily toward some specialties and females toward others (Derm being one), and you get more female Dermatologists than male Dermatologists.

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SPECIALTY AVERAGE STEP 1 SCORE (MATCHED) AVERAGE STEP 2 SCORE (MATCHED)
Plastic Surgery 249 256
Otolaryngology 248 256
Dermatology 248 256
Orthopaedic Surgery 248 255
Interventional Radiology 247 255
Neurological Surgery 248 252
Radiation Oncology 243 250
Internal Medicine/Pediatrics 236 250
Diagnostic Radiology 241 249
General Surgery 237 249
Internal Medicine 235 248
Obstetrics and Gynecology 232 248
Vascular Surgery 239 247
Emergency Medicine 233 247
Anesthesiology 234 246
Child Neurology 233 246
Neurology 232 245
Pediatrics 228 245
Pathology 233 242
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 228 241
Psychiatry 227 241
Family Medicine 221 238

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Weird.

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Male-dominated specialties

Orthopedic surgery—84.6%.
Neurological surgery—82.5%.
Interventional radiology (integrated)—80.8%.
Thoracic surgery—78.2%.
Pain medicine—75.3%.
Radiology—73.2%.

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Female-dominated specialties

Obstetrics and gynecology—83.4%.
Allergy and immunology—73.5%.
Pediatrics—72.1%.
Medical genetics and genomics—66.7%.
Hospice and palliative medicine—66.3%.
Dermatology—60.8%.

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