Sexual harassment and racism in surgery: A latent problem

A step-by-step guide to creating an academic surgery interest group: Review article

“…It will be necessary to create an educational environment in which teacher and student coordinators maintain permanent contact, to ensure the continuous development of the research attitude [ 30 , 31 ]. Accompaniment will be crucial to make improvements, correct mistakes, support new ideas and clarify doubts.…”

Global outcomes, surgical teams and COVID-19 pandemic: Will the same objectives of global surgery persist?

“…Funk et al [ 2 ] determined that approximately 2 billion people do not have access to these services, being more intense in low- and middle-income countries [ 2 ]. The promotion of academic surgery [ 3 ], improvement in the training of residents [ 4 ], the design of modes and strategies that improve the final and functional outcomes in the care practice [ 5 ], highly specialized training, student participation and training in the surgical field [ 6 , 7 ], professionalism in surgery [ 8 ], gender equity [ 9 ], among others [ 5 ]; constitute the rest of the proposed objectives, in order to make surgery an evidence-based discipline that guarantees results, optimizes the patient's experience, improves the doctor-patient relationship and facilitates the development of the practice with the best cost-effectiveness and cost-utility [ 1 , [3] , [4] , [5] ]. However, after the emergence of the pandemic, new problems came to light and it became evident that surgical progress has been slow in some parts of the world [ 3 , 6 , 8 ].…”

Letter to the Editor. Gender equity in academic neurosurgery: the fight must go on

“…3 Despite the fact that over time the participation of women in this specialty has increased, their number is still low compared to men; multiple authors have tried to argue whether this difference is due to factors such as a lower performance of women in the area. Zuluaga-Ramirez et al, 4 in their criticism of the current situation of harassment and discrimination, highlight an interesting reality: "a man surgeon is not superior to a woman surgeon in their techniques or abilities," taking into account a cohort study conducted in Canada with 104,630 patients, in which significant statistical results were found for less mortality, less readmission, and fewer patients with complications at 30 days when treated by women. 4 Considering the great capacities of women, they should not be displaced by a simple gender stigma; they deserve to be able to fulfill their dreams and to have the same opportunities as men, without limitations due to domestic tasks or undervaluation of their abilities, because there are many talented female researchers who may remain overlooked because of these prejudices.…”

“…Zuluaga-Ramirez et al, 4 in their criticism of the current situation of harassment and discrimination, highlight an interesting reality: "a man surgeon is not superior to a woman surgeon in their techniques or abilities," taking into account a cohort study conducted in Canada with 104,630 patients, in which significant statistical results were found for less mortality, less readmission, and fewer patients with complications at 30 days when treated by women. 4 Considering the great capacities of women, they should not be displaced by a simple gender stigma; they deserve to be able to fulfill their dreams and to have the same opportunities as men, without limitations due to domestic tasks or undervaluation of their abilities, because there are many talented female researchers who may remain overlooked because of these prejudices. Over time, many women have had to overcome these obstacles; the last 30 years has been a period of growth in women's participation in neurosurgery.…”

“…Ariana Alejandra Chacón-Aponte, MS 1 Erika Andrea Durán-Vargas, MS 1 Ivan David Lozada-Martínez, MS [2][3][4] Yelson Alejandro Picón-Jaimes, MD 2 Luis Rafael Moscote-Salazar, MD…”