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While asynchronous messaging is a valuable communication modality for patients, a greater volume of patient messages is associated with burnout and decreased well-being for physicians. Given that women physicians experienced greater electronic health record (EHR) burden and received more patient messages pre-pandemic, there is concern that COVID may have exacerbated this disparity. Using EHR audit log data of ambulatory physicians at an academic medical center, we used a difference-in-differences framework to evaluate the impact of the pandemic on patient message volume and compare differences between men and women physicians. We found patient message volume increased post-COVID for all physicians, and women physicians saw an additional increase compared to men. 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