To understand gender trends among urologists included in ‘Top Doctor’ lists as more women practice urology, we 1) Evaluated whether Top Doctor lists reflect a contemporary distribution of urologists by gender; 2) Describe regional differences in gender composition of lists; 3) Report similarities and differences among men and women Top Doctors.
All urologists in regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly lists published in magazines between 1/1/2020-6/22/2021 were included. Physician attributes were abstracted. American Urological Association (AUA) census data was used to compare the number of men and women Top Doctor urologists to the number of practicing men and women urologists within each list’s zip codes. Log odds ratios (OR) and [95% confidence intervals] were used to compare likelihood of list inclusion by gender overall and by region.
Four hundred and ninety-four Top Doctor urologists from 25 lists were analyzed, of which 42 (8.50%) were women. Women urologists comprised 0-27.8% of each list, with 7 lists (28.0%) including zero women urologists. Using AUA census data, OR for list inclusion of men urologists compared to women was 1.31 [1.01,1.70] overall, with OR=0.78 [0.36,1.72] in the West, OR=1.39 [1.03,1.89] South, OR=1.46 [0.8,2.67] Northeast, OR=1.90 [0.50,7.18] Midwest. Women top urologists completed fellowship more often than men (66.7%, 55.1%) and were significantly more likely to complete female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery (FPMRS) fellowship (p<0.001).
Men urologists were significantly more likely to be included in Top Doctor lists than women urologists. Top women urologists were significantly more likely to complete FPMRS fellowship.

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