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A study that looked at new physicians in New York state had discouraging news for female doctors.
The research (PDF) found that not only have differences in pay persisted between newly trained male and female doctors, the gap has grown over time.
While the number of women doctors completing training has steadily increased, the pay gap between men and women in 2016 was more than $26,000 after taking into account factors such as specialty, setting, practice location and patient care hours, researchers at the University of Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies found. The center analyzed trends in starting salaries for physicians who completed graduate medical education training in New York over the last 15 years.