Advances in Interventional Cardiology
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Gender-based disparities in self-reported procedural experience: a cross-sectional survey of medical students in Poland

Artur Dziewierz
1, 2
,
Paulina Jaskulska
3
,
Natalia Dardzińska
3
,
Aleksandra Piotrowska
3
,
Aleksandra Gładyś
4, 5
,
Mikołaj Jeżak
6
,
Sebastian Goncerz
7
,
Władysław Krajewski
8
,
Zbigniew Siudak
8

  1. Second Department of Cardiology, Institute of Cardiology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Krakow, Poland
  2. Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Interventions, University Hospital, Krakow, Poland
  3. Collegium Medicum, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
  4. Doctoral School, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  5. Department of Radiotherapy, University Clinical Center, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  6. Medical University of Lublin, Poland
  7. Bielsko-Biała Center for Psychiatry, General Psychiatric Ward with Psychiatric Rehabilitation Subunit, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
  8. Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System, Specialist Hospital, Koscierzyna, Poland
Adv Interv Cardiol
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/aic.2025.155584
Online publish date: 2025/10/28
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