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Physician gender, background, and experience influence sports medicine recommendations, supporting fellowship diversity.
Physician background and demographics influence treatment recommendations in sports medicine, highlighting the value of diversity in fellowship programs.
Physician factors may shape sports medicine decisions; hypothesis-generating for fellowship diversity benefits, prospective data needed.
Data suggests there are differences in documented treatment recommendations based on the residency completed prior to sports medicine fellowship, physician gender, and experience. Increased diversity within Sports Medicine fellowship classes, such as including both males and females as well as FM trained physicians and EM trained physicians, can bring additional perspectives and experience to patient care.
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Lunt et al. (2026) studied this question. Physician gender, residency background, and experience influence sports medicine treatment recommendations, highlighting benefits of diversity in fellowship training.
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