Are Women Leaving Interventional Cardiology?

Women remain underrepresented in cardiology, particularly interventional cardiology. Now, a new analysis examines the rate at which women interventionalists become inactive as compared with men.

Using Medicare data, investigators identified nearly 8500 “active” (i.e., providing specialty-specific services to at least 10 Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries annually) interventional cardiologists as well as a comparator group of nearly 3500 interventional gastroenterologists, all active between 2013 and 2020. Women comprised 4% of interventionalists in cardiology (vs. 6% in gastroenterology). The annual probability of becoming inactive was significantly higher for women than for men among interventional cardiologists (21% vs. 15%). This disp…