5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  Female ophthalmology residents performed significantly fewer surgical procedures than male residents over a 10-year period.

• 2

  The study analyzed surgical case log data from 4,811 ophthalmology resident graduates from 2014 to 2023.

• 3

  URiM residents logged fewer total surgical procedures compared to non-URiM residents, with a mean difference of 31.5 cases.

• 4

  The proportion of female residents remained stable, while URiM representation increased from 2.8% in 2014 to 11.3% in 2023.

• 5

  The study highlights persistent gender and racial disparities in surgical volume among U.S. ophthalmology residents.