Workshop summaries from the 2015 Sex and Gender Medical Education Summit: utilization of sex and gender based medical education resources and creating student competencies

Abstract

BackgroundDespite overwhelming evidence that sex and gender are critical factors in the delivery and practice of medicine, there is no unified sex- and gender-based medicine (SGBM) undergraduate medical education curriculum. Two Workshops within the 2015 Sex and Gender Medical Education Summit: a Roadmap to Curricular Innovation sought to lay the framework for such a curriculum.MethodsAttendees to the Sex and Gender Educational Summit self-selected attendance for one of two Workshops: (A) Utilization of SGBM Resources in U.S. Medical Schools or (B) Creating SGBM Student Competencies.ResultsWorkshop A identified gaps in existing curricula as well as strategies for incorporating available SGBM content into existing educational activities or curricular threads. Focus was given to the use of advisory committees to nurture collaboration and sharing of resources. Workshop B created a framework for national SGBM competencies by adapting existing materials from women’s health curricula such as Brown University’s SGBM Emergency Medicine subspecialty. The importance of student engagement, assessment, and faculty development were stressed as well as engaging the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) in awareness of the vital nature of including SGBM content into all medical school curricula.ConclusionThese Workshops provided a forum for national and international institutional representatives to lay a foundation for integration of SGBM into medical school curricula and the development of national SGBM Student Competencies.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13293-016-0092-8) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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The Integration of Gender Medicine in Medical Education at Austrian Universities – the Status Quo

“…The development of uniform criteria and standards, as are currently being discussed in the United States (McGregor et al, 2016), would be welcome in Austria. At the same time, thought should be given to the possibilities and means of promoting a comprehensive introduction of Gender Medicine at all medical universities with the goal of ensuring over the long term a health care system that takes into account the medically relevant sex and gender differences for women and men.…”

“…Still lacking, however, are uniform standards for teaching and research. Recently, there has been a push in the initiatives to develop such standards and uniform criteria, which was apparent inter alia in 2015 in the United States at the Sex-and Gender-based Medical Education Summit (McGregor et al, 2016). Parallel thereto, efforts in this direction are also being made in Europe: in Germany strategies were drawn up for the integration of Sex and Gender Medicine in medical curricula (Ludwig et al, 2015), and joint European projects are being conducted (EUGIM, EuGenMed, GenderMedWiki).…”

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“…Resultados de pesquisas conduzidas em homens, aplicadas no atendimento clínico de mulheres, contribuíram para disparidades de gênero na assistência à saúde (McGregor et al, 2016). Este fenômeno denominado andronormatividade, em que o homem serve como parâmetro, desconsidera o fato das diferenças fisiológicas das mulheres com efeitos nas respostas a doenças, como a síndrome coronariana aguda, e a medicamentos, podendo levar a tratamentos ineficazes ou a toxicidade a medicamentos (Lagro-Janssen, 2010).…”