Attitudes of women and men physicians.

Heins, Marilyn; Hendricks, Joanne; Martindale, Lois J.; Smock, Sue Marx; Stein, M; Jacobs, Jennifer

doi:10.2105/ajph.69.11.1132

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“…The response rate of 88% in this study was very satisfactory and somewhat higher than a number of similar surveys among the medical profession (Burgess et al 1978; Heins et al 1979; Wechsler et al 1983; Fortmann et al 1985). The relatively smaller sample and the fact that this survey was conducted in conjunction with another study on the training and career choices of the young doctors may explain partly the high response rate which contributed to the validity of our findings.…”

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Smoking among young doctors in Hong Kong: a message to medical educators

Cheng

Lam

1990

Medical Education

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A survey was conducted using a self-administered questionnaire to examine the smoking habits, attitudes and practices of 151 doctors in their pre-registration year. The response rate was 88%. Over 80% of the respondents had never smoked. Less than 7% of the men smoked daily and none of the women smoked. Despite a very low smoking rate among the respondents, there were shortcomings in attitudes and practices. The study demonstrated that even in a place like Hong Kong, where the social climate on smoking is already changing in a healthy direction, significant deficiencies in our graduates can still arise if teaching on smoking and its control is undertaken in an uncoordinated manner. We argue that a specific course on the important aspects of smoking and health should be introduced into all undergraduate curricula. This is of special importance in countries where smoking is one the increase and where governmental actions on smoking control are inadequate in comparison with the marketing efforts of powerful multinational tobacco companies. Considering the magnitude of smoking as a global health problem, it is the very least that medical educators should do in combating this pandemic.

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Smoking among young doctors in Hong Kong: a message to medical educators

Cheng

Lam

1990

Medical Education

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“…This finding accords with those from other studies. Women students and doctors differ from their men colleagues in both attitudes to patients and their communication skills, tending to hold more positive attitudes to giving patients information and showing more empathic behaviour in consultations (Heins et al 1979; Bean & Kidder 1982; Wasserman et al 1984; Weisman & Teitelbaum 1985).…”

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Factors influencing the communication skills of first-year clinical medical students

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The aim of this study was to examine the factors influencing medical students' communication skills. The sample comprised all first-year clinical students. Thirty-two received teaching in communication skills during the year; the remaining 56 did not. Students' career preferences, attitudes towards communication skills and confidence in their ability to communicate with patients were assessed by questionnaire at the beginning and end of the year. At the end of the year each student was videotaped interviewing a simulated patient. Students' communication skills were assessed on the basis of this interview by raters using a standardized rating scale, and by patient questionnaires. While there was some evidence that brief communication skills training improved skills, sex of student was a more significant predictor of level of skill. Students who perceived communication skills as less relevant to medicine and those who were more confident about their own communication skills were more likely to prefer a career in hospital medicine. Students' judgements of their ability to communicate effectively were poor. In the main there was no relationship between confidence and level of skill: where they were related, the association was negative. The benefits from communication skills training might be enhanced by involving hospital doctors in the teaching, and providing students with detailed video feedback on their skills at the outset.

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“…It has been suggested that women possess greater sensitivity to social issues than do men, which will, over time, affect the medical profession's position on matters such as national health insurance (Heins et al, 1979;Relman, 1980), or at least its willingness to experiment with different economic arrangements for medical practice (Relman, 1989). The most widely shared prediction about the effects of increased numbers of women in medicine has been that women physicians will give the profession an increased capacity for demonstrating caring attitudes toward patients (e.g., Elliott, 1981;Zeno, 1982), which may be "more valuable in healing than all the medicine in the textbooks" (Keeler, 1980:8).…”

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Gender Roles, Medical Practice Roles, and Ob-Gyn Career Choice

Kutner

Brogan

1990

Women & Health

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This paper discusses follow-up data from physicians who were studied ten years earlier when they were medical students. Seventeen physicians were practicing ob-gyn, and 57 of the physicians studied had been interested in an ob-gyn career when they were medical students. At Time 1, women were more likely than men to be strongly interested in ob-gyn, but they were no more likely than men to be ob-gyn physicians at Time 2. The desire to have a surgical specialty was much more important to men than to women practitioners. Men ob-gyn practitioners were significantly more traditional in their sex-role outlook as medical students than were either women practitioners or women who had been strongly interested in the field but did not enter it. The data suggest that women ob-gyn physicians are more likely than their male peers to be egalitarian in their relationships with female patients.

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Attitudes of women and men physicians.

Cited by 36 publications

References 26 publications

Smoking among young doctors in Hong Kong: a message to medical educators

Smoking among young doctors in Hong Kong: a message to medical educators

Factors influencing the communication skills of first-year clinical medical students

Gender Roles, Medical Practice Roles, and Ob-Gyn Career Choice

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