A Successful Strategy to Integrate Sex and Gender Medicine into a Newly Developed Medical Curriculum

Ludwig, Sabine; Oertelt‐Prigione, Sabine; Kurmeyer, Christine; Gross, Manfred; Grüters-Kieslich, Annette; Regitz‐Zagrosek, Vera; Peters, Harm

doi:10.1089/jwh.2015.5249

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“…Major tools include equal opportunity recruitment, anti-discriminatory practices, monitoring of gender equality, career development workshops and seminars, gender-sensitive appointment and promotion criteria, support for parents and carers, flexible and part-time working arrangements, mentoring programmes and networking for women, unconscious bias and diversity training for all staff, and inclusion of gender issues in teaching curricula [25]. While these tools are broadly similar and applied, at least to some extent, at all four centres, the socio-legal contexts and governance frameworks vary.…”

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Closing the gender leadership gap: a multi-centre cross-country comparison of women in management and leadership in academic health centres in the European Union

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BackgroundWomen’s participation in medicine and the need for gender equality in healthcare are increasingly recognised, yet little attention is paid to leadership and management positions in large publicly funded academic health centres. This study illustrates such a need, taking the case of four large European centres: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany), Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), Medizinische Universität Wien (Austria), and Oxford Academic Health Science Centre (United Kingdom).CaseThe percentage of female medical students and doctors in all four countries is now well within the 40–60% gender balance zone. Women are less well represented among specialists and remain significantly under-represented among senior doctors and full professors. All four centres have made progress in closing the gender leadership gap on boards and other top-level decision-making bodies, but a gender leadership gap remains relevant. The level of achieved gender balance varies significantly between the centres and largely mirrors country-specific welfare state models, with more equal gender relations in Sweden than in the other countries. Notably, there are also similar trends across countries and centres: gender inequality is stronger within academic enterprises than within hospital enterprises and stronger in middle management than at the top level. These novel findings reveal fissures in the ‘glass ceiling’ effects at top-level management, while the barriers for women shift to middle-level management and remain strong in academic positions. The uneven shifts in the leadership gap are highly relevant and have policy implications.ConclusionSetting gender balance objectives exclusively for top-level decision-making bodies may not effectively promote a wider goal of gender equality. Academic health centres should pay greater attention to gender equality as an issue of organisational performance and good leadership at all levels of management, with particular attention to academic enterprises and newly created management structures. Developing comprehensive gender-sensitive health workforce monitoring systems and comparing progress across academic health centres in Europe could help to identify the gender leadership gap and utilise health human resources more effectively.

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“…The most recent and most important component of the systematic approach was the integration of sex and gender aspects into the new modular medical curriculum of the medical school, a process that started in 2010 [4]. This integration was accomplished by close collaboration with the Department for Course Development, where a change agent for gender medicine was placed in the Curriculum Development Team [4].…”

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“…This integration was accomplished by close collaboration with the Department for Course Development, where a change agent for gender medicine was placed in the Curriculum Development Team [4]. This change agent was crucial for the communication and interaction with the dean, professors of different departments, gender researchers and experts, and the GiM, among others.…”

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“…The overall goal was the incorporation of the aspects of sex and gender differences in the development, diagnosis, and therapy of disease into the new modular medical curriculum for the teaching of medical students. These efforts, which were based on the database described above, resulted in 94 lectures, 33 seminars, and 16 practical courses on gender medicine and sex-related research throughout the modular curriculum [4]. The GiM also organized and offers a whole module on “gender-specific diseases.”…”

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Integrating topics of sex and gender into medical curricula—lessons from the international community

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In the era of individualized medicine, training future scientists and health-care providers in the principles of sex- and gender-based differences in health and disease is critical in order to optimize patient care. International successes to incorporate these concepts into medical curricula can provide a template for others to follow. Methodologies and resources are provided that can be adopted and adapted to specific needs of other institutions and learning situations.

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“…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). In her diploma thesis Hiltner (2016) gives an overview of the European status quo for Gender Medicine.…”

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

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The work at hand examines the current status of the implementation of Gender Medicine in medical education at all Austrian universities. To date no systematic studies have been conducted on this subject. This study covers public as well as private universities.The methodology was to first conduct a document analysis, followed by a questionnaire survey.Analysis of the documents showed that Gender Medicine is often combined with affirmative action for women, equal treatment and/or gender studies. These subjects are frequently combined in order to meet legal requirements, which often results in unclear and vague statements of goals. The results show that, at least formally, Gender Medicine has been integrated at all the Austrian universities by being anchored in their curricula. Actual implementation in everyday university studies has been achieved very differently at the various universities and is more or less sustainable.The development of uniform standards and criteria would be a next important step for the Austrian universities.

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A Successful Strategy to Integrate Sex and Gender Medicine into a Newly Developed Medical Curriculum

Abstract: The appointment of a change agent facilitates the development of systematic approaches that can be a key and serve as practice models to successfully integrate new overarching curricular perspectives and dimensions--in this case sex and gender medicine--into a new medical curriculum.

Cited by 65 publications

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Closing the gender leadership gap: a multi-centre cross-country comparison of women in management and leadership in academic health centres in the European Union

Closing the gender leadership gap: a multi-centre cross-country comparison of women in management and leadership in academic health centres in the European Union

Integrating topics of sex and gender into medical curricula—lessons from the international community

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

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