Science &amp; gender: vision and mission

Kautzky‐Willer, Alexandra

doi:10.1007/s00508-010-1320-6

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“…Thus socio-demographic characteristics were analysed in order to prove if attendance was either imbalanced regarding sex or not. Female to male ratio appears to be nearly similar comparing the background population of 8500 students at the MUV and the 642 students completing the questionnaire with 57.6% female and 42.3% male attendants [1,7,8]. By experience at the MUV, proved by this paper and according to other papers [5,9], male students and males in general are not as enthusiastic about gender-issues as female students and females in general are.…”

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Perspectives on gender-specific medicine, course and learning style preferences in medical education: a study among students at the Medical University of Vienna

Harreiter

Wiener

Plass

et al. 2011

Wien Med Wochenschr

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In the study for the thesis Web Based Training with Moodle: Gender-differences in Action of Drugs, a survey among students of the Medical University of Vienna (MUV) concerning the implementation of gender-specific medicine in the curriculum and students' learning styles was performed. Data analysis (given as mean±sem) showed that students (n = 642) rated (Likert scale, 1-6) the importance of gender-specific medicine fairly high (4.02±0.06), and rated the importance of knowing about gender-specific medicine as a medical doctor even higher (4.49±0.05). Further implementation of gender-relevant topics into the curriculum appeared less important (3.64±0.06). Students rated their own knowledge on gender-specific medicine neutrally (3.40±0.05). For some items significant differences between males and females as well as the old and new curriculum were found. Students considered gender-specific medicine as important but sufficiently covered in their medical education at the MUV.

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“…370 (57.6%) were female and 272 (42.4%) were male. This distribution mirrors the distribution of sex in students of the MUV and participants of the aptitude test (EMS) before admission to medical studies at the MUV [1,7,8]. Thus the data pool is representative.…”

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Perspectives on gender-specific medicine, course and learning style preferences in medical education: a study among students at the Medical University of Vienna

Harreiter

Wiener

Plass

et al. 2011

Wien Med Wochenschr

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“…Gender medicine is an example of interdisciplinary integrated research. Women more often engage in this field of research; therefore, promotion of gender medicine may also increase the number of females in academic medicine [14].…”

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Editorial: Sex- and gender-based medicine: a challenging field of research

Kautzky‐Willer

2011

Wien Med Wochenschr

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Gender medicine is a new and challenging field of research which arouses increasing public interest and is going to affect more and more clinical practice. There is increasing evidence of gender-related differences in risk factors, clinical manifestation, and sequelae of diseases and increasing knowledge that prevention, detection, and therapy of illness affect men and women differently. Broad-minded clinicians and health professionals try to consider the different health needs of women and men. The increase of gender awareness is also reflected in several articles concerning sex-and gender-differences in the various fields of medicine and professional journals in addition to the journals relevant to this specific science. Therefore, it is not surprising that other fields of research than public health or cardiology, which traditionally engaged in gender medicine, are increasingly addressing sex-and gender-based differences. For example an actual scientific literature search in PubMed with the term Gender medicine resulted in 29837 publications including 1894 review articles. The terms gender differences showed 104176 articles, sex differences 134079 and gender bias 22317 publications. On the other hand, Womens health resulted in 306274, but Mens health in only 3107 citations. Gender medicine developed from womens health but also broadened the field of womens health including the wide range of health conditions that affect women beyond sexual and reproductive health and throughout the life course. Furthermore, the gender approach also prepared scientists and clinicians for more thorough engagement in mens health.In particular, gender medicine in the field of endocrinology and metabolism is rapidly expanding. Indeed endocrinology is one of the core subjects of gender-based medicine in general and therefore a regular section devoted to endocrinology was recently introduced to the journal specifically devoted to gender medicine, the Journal of Gender Medicine, founded by Marianne Legato in 2004 [1]. Sex-and gender-differences play an important role in pathophysiology, clinical picture, development of complications and in part also regarding therapy of metabolic disorders affecting life-quality and life-expectancy [2,3]. It is comprehensible that lifestyle-diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes are of special interest to sex-and gender-based medicine. Not only genes, sex-specific hormones, and body fat distribution combined with sex-related changes of adipocytokines, but also environmental exposures and psychosocial factors obviously contribute to progression of the diseases [4,5]. However, many other diseases such as immunologic diseases and allergies, but also degenerative diseases, neurologic and psychologic diseases show important sex-and gender-based differences [6]. In addition, knowledge on differences in drug-response and side reactions following drug therapy is still insufficient and there is need for randomized clinical trials addressing these questions and powered to answer these question in the futu...

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