Gender-based education during clerkships: a focus group study

Leerdam, Lotte van; L, Rietveld; Teunissen, Doreth; Lagro-Janssen, Antoine L. M.

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“…van Leerdam et al [23] performed a focus group study related to the exposure to gender-sensitive topics during internal medicine or surgical clerkships, surveying a sample of 29 medical students from Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The respondents stated that they had rarely been exposed to such topics, mainly due to insufficient knowledge, lack of awareness, and perceived minor impact or irrelevance of sex and gender medicine.…”

Section: The Need For and Willingness Toward Acquiring Sex-and Gender...mentioning

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How to Integrate Sex and Gender Medicine into Medical and Allied Health Profession Undergraduate, Graduate, and Post-Graduate Education: Insights from a Rapid Systematic Literature Review and a Thematic Meta-Synthesis

Khamisy‐Farah

Bragazzi

2022

JPM

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Sex and gender are concepts that are often misunderstood and misused, being utilized in a biased, preconceived, interchangeable way. Sex and gender medicine is generally overlooked, despite the profound impact of sex and gender on health outcomes. The aims of the present rapid systematic literature review were (i) to assess the extent to which sex- and gender-sensitive topics are covered in medical courses; (ii) to assess the need for and willingness toward integrating/incorporating sex and gender medicine into health-related education; (iii) to identify barriers and facilitators of the process of implementation of sex and gender medicine in medical teaching, mentoring, and training; and (iv) to evaluate the effectiveness of interventional projects targeting curriculum building and improvement for future gender-sensitive physicians. Seven themes were identified by means of a thematic analysis, namely, (i) how much sex- and gender-based medicine is covered by medical courses and integrated into current medical curricula, (ii) the knowledge of sex and gender medicine among medical and allied health profession students, (iii) the need for and willingness toward acquiring sex- and gender-sensitive skills, (iv) how to integrate sex- and gender-based medicine into medical curricula in terms of barriers and facilitators, (v) existing platforms and tools to share knowledge related to sex and gender medicine, (vi) sex- and gender-based medicine aspects in the post-medical education, and (vii) the impact of sex- and gender-sensitive topics integrated into medical curricula. Based on the identified gaps in knowledge, further high-quality, randomized trials with larger samples are urgently warranted to fill these gaps in the field of implementation of gender medicine in educating and training future gender-sensitive physicians.

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Section: The Need For and Willingness Toward Acquiring Sex-and Gender...mentioning

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How to Integrate Sex and Gender Medicine into Medical and Allied Health Profession Undergraduate, Graduate, and Post-Graduate Education: Insights from a Rapid Systematic Literature Review and a Thematic Meta-Synthesis

Khamisy‐Farah

Bragazzi

2022

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The Need for Sex and Gender Education Reform

McGregor

2015

Journal of Women's Health

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A dvances in our understanding of the very specific and unique medical needs of women have sparked a paradigm shift in the education of healthcare professionalsa shift in perspective that has been clarified around health care providers' acceptance that patient's sex and gender have an unavoidable influence on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease. In 1991, the Office of Women's Health in the United States Department of Health and Human Services was established to improve the health of American women.1 One of the first initiatives of that office was the launching of specialized elective postgraduate level training as a resource for medical students to build their understanding and experience in women's health from the earliest days of their education. In 2005, the Directory of Residency and Fellowship Programs in Women's Health listed 10 residency programs and 16 fellowships in the United States with women's health tracks.2 Sadly, this number has not changed significantly in the last decade; only eight residency programs and 26 fellowships offered women's health tracks in 2015. 3The Office of Women's Health has relied on individual institutions to initiate and sustain postgraduate educational tracks focusing on women's health; this approach has faced many challenges and has not been particularly successful in increasing health care providers understanding and knowledge about the unique needs of female patients. While several fellowship programs in women's health have been established since 1990 and descriptions of the programs have been circulated in a directory, there is limited general knowledge about their existence. 4 Residents enrolled in these programs represent a small fraction of the total number of graduates per year and are drawn from a limited number of medical specialties. The medical specialties that have successfully endorsed women's health tracks are all primary care or primary care oriented, and include internal medicine, family medicine, emergency medicine, psychiatry, and obstetrics and gynecology. Surgery, radiology, neurology, allergy and immune, pediatrics, and many others have never endorsed a focus on education directed specifically at women's health. Women's health, once huddled under the umbrella of reproductive health, now is defined by conditions specific to women and conditions in which the risk, presentation, and/or response to treatment for women differs from that of men. Furthermore, the larger perspective in this field now encompasses sex-and gender-based medicine, acknowledging that both biological and sociocultural aspects of women's and men's health need to be incorporated into management of health and disease.A great deal of the postgraduate training designed to advance the care of women has worked to establish an interdisciplinary model; however, the traditional women's health frame centering on obstetrics and gynecologic issues still lingers in many centers. In 2015, a focus on gender differences was included as a significant goal for 25% of reporting residency p...

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Gender-based education during clerkships: a focus group study

Cited by 2 publications

References 28 publications

How to Integrate Sex and Gender Medicine into Medical and Allied Health Profession Undergraduate, Graduate, and Post-Graduate Education: Insights from a Rapid Systematic Literature Review and a Thematic Meta-Synthesis

How to Integrate Sex and Gender Medicine into Medical and Allied Health Profession Undergraduate, Graduate, and Post-Graduate Education: Insights from a Rapid Systematic Literature Review and a Thematic Meta-Synthesis

The Need for Sex and Gender Education Reform

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