Female Gastro Gastroenterologists
According to recent statistics, women make up roughly 50% of medical school students and 40% to 50% of third-year internal medicine residents.Despite the high proportion of female medical students, the proportion of female gastroenterology (GI) fellows has stayed constant at 25–30% over the past few years. Furthermore, only 13% of the nation's 13,000 gastroenterologists are female.
Female patients prefer to see female gastroenterologists, according to published and anecdotal data. In a prospective survey of more than 1,000 patients. discovered that females preferred female gastroenterologists and female colonoscopists for office visits. There must be an effort made to train more female gastroenterologists in order to address this need.
In Nig we care for the female patient, One of the first female gastroenterologists in Gujarat, Dr. Shreya Butala practices in Nig. She has six years of experience in the industry and is very knowledgeable and skilled in gastroenterology and hepatology. She is an expert at managing patients with GL and liver problems and handles patients with a comprehensive perspective and the utmost patience. She has an incredibly strong academic background. She completed her MBBS at B J Medical College Ahmedabad (2008–2014), where she had previously won the 2008 Gujarat Entrance Examination. In her third-round MBBS exam, she received gold medals in both surgery and gynecology. Under the direction of Dr. N.M. Kadri, she earned her MD in medicine in 2017 from BJ Medical College Ahmedabad, one of the biggest government universities in India.
Under the expert direction of Prof. Dr. Vivek Saraswat, she completed her DM in gastroenterology at SGPGIMS Lucknow, one of India's few centers of competence in the discipline. Over the course of three years, she performed close to 1500 diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopies and colonoscopies, close to 150 ERCPs, and close to 150 diagnostic EUS, gaining a great amount of expertise in clinical and endoscopic abilities. Under the direction of Dr. Uday Ghoshal, she gained extensive understanding in Manometry, pHmetry, and luminal and functional GI diseases. She also studied endobariatrics under the tutelage of Drs. Mohit Bhandari and Manuel Galvao Neto. From 2020 to 2021, she served as a consultant gastroenterologist at the Gujarat Cancer Research Institute (GCRI) in Ahmedabad. She got experience handling GI cancers and performing complex endoscopic treatments during that time.
We must begin at the top if we want to fully address the apparent gender inequalities in GI. Prioritizing encouraging greater equity in GI leadership roles and addressing the gender gap of incoming GI fellows should be top priorities for our leadership, as embodied by the national societies.
