Philadelphia Inquirer Interviews Drs. Amy Goldberg and Elizabeth Dauer about Study That Finds Female Surgical Residents Face Greater Mistreatment Than Males

Amy J. Goldberg, MD, FACS, George S. Peters, MD and Louise C. Peters Chair and Professor of Surgery at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University (LKSOM) and Surgeon-in-Chief of Temple University Health System, and Elizabeth D. Dauer, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at LKSOM and Associate Program Director of the General Surgery Residency Program, were interviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer for an article about a recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine. The study looked at discrimination, abuse, harassment and burnout in surgical residency training and found that female surgical residents experienced these at higher rates than male surgical residents. Drs. Goldberg and Dauer shared their insight with the Inquirer reporter.