Gender-focused training improves leadership of female medical students: A randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Recent research suggests that the gender of health care providers may affect their medical performance. This trial investigated (1) the effects of the gender composition of resuscitation teams on leadership behaviour of first responders and (2) the effects of a brief gender-specific instruction on leadership behaviour of female first responders.

Methods

This prospective randomised single-blinded trial, carried out between 2008 and 2016, included 364 fourth-year medical students of two Swiss universities. One hundred and eighty-two teams of two students each were confronted with a simulated cardiac arrest, occurring in the presence of a first responder while a second responder is summoned to help. The effect of gender composition was assessed by comparing all possi

SUBMITTER: Hochstrasser SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9291895 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature