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The objective of this study was to examine whether gender differences exist in key individual and institutional determinants of academic medical career aspirations among medical residents, including research motivation, mentoring, work centrality, self-efficacy, perceived discrimination and stress.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Design<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This was a national cross-sectional online survey.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Multicentre study conducted across 36 medical schools in France.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>A total of 1570 medical residents (997\u2009women and 573 men) voluntarily participated between November 2022 and February 2023. All participants completed validated self-report questionnaires. There were no exclusion criteria beyond being enrolled in a French residency programme.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Primary and secondary outcome measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Attitudes towards research (interest, motivation, significance) were measured using the Scale of Attitudes towards Research. Mentoring was assessed with the Mentor\u2013Mentee Perception Questionnaire, work centrality with Hirschfeld and Feild\u2019s scale, self-efficacy with the General Self-Efficacy Scale, perceived discrimination with the Sexual Harassment and Discrimination Experiences of Academic Medical Faculty instrument and stress with the Perceived Stress Scale. Gender differences were analysed using t-tests or \u03c7\u00b2 tests with Holm-Bonferroni corrections for multiple comparisons.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Compared with men, women reported lower research motivation (mean (SD) 21.0 (5.5) vs 22.8 (5.5); p\n                      <jats:sub>adj<\/jats:sub>\n                      =0.011), lower research interest (27.1 (5.5) vs 28.1 (5.7); p\n                      <jats:sub>adj<\/jats:sub>\n                      =0.011), lower work centrality (26.7 (7.0) vs 28.2 (8.1); p\n                      <jats:sub>adj<\/jats:sub>\n                      =0.011) and lower self-efficacy (28.3 (5.2) vs 29.9 (5.0); p\n                      <jats:sub>adj<\/jats:sub>\n                      =0.011). Women were less likely to report having a mentor (38.5% vs 44.5%; p\n                      <jats:sub>adj<\/jats:sub>\n                      =0.02). They also reported substantially higher levels of experienced gender discrimination (22.8% vs 3.8%; p\n                      <jats:sub>adj<\/jats:sub>\n                      =0.005), sexual harassment (57.7% vs 18.2%; p\n                      <jats:sub>adj<\/jats:sub>\n                      =0.005) and perceived stress (8.48 (3.29) vs 7.27 (3.43); p\n                      <jats:sub>adj<\/jats:sub>\n                      =0.011)\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Gender differences were observed across several individual and institutional factors associated with academic medical career aspirations. Reduced access to mentoring and greater exposure to discrimination and stress among women may contribute to lower research motivation and self-efficacy. 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