At med schools, more women rule

The face of medicine is changing.

Women accounted for the majority of graduate medical education trainees in seven specialties in 2012: pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, dermatology, internal medicine, family medicine, pathology and psychiatry.

That analysis of publicly reported data by Johns Hopkins University researchers is published in the current JAMA Internal Medicine.

However, African-American and Hispanic trainees are still underrepresented; just 7.5 percent were Hispanic and 5.8 percent were black in 2012.

The pool of practicing physicians also remains dominated by white men. Of 688,468 doctors, 30 percent were women and about 9 percent were underrepresented minorities.

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