Gender medicine teaching increases medical students' gender awareness: results of a quantitative survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Knowledge about gender implications of health is insufficiently integrated into university teaching in Germany. Gender awareness represents a key competence to integrate this knowledge into the medical practice. This study is the first survey of the gender awareness of medical students in a cross-sectional design in Germany.

Methods

From April to July 2021, a quantitative cross-sectional survey in an online format using the "Nijmegen Gender Awareness in Medicine Scale" (2008) was conducted at four German universities (Charité Berlin, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and the University of Cologne) with a varied implementation of teaching gender medicine. Students indicated their agreement or disagreement with assumptions and

SUBMITTER: Wortmann L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10407584 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature