Sex-stereotyping and sex-congruency: Components in the sex role definition of medical specialities in India

Bhargava, Gura

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“…This may be attributed to their personal choices, socio-familial, cultural, peer pressure, marriage with settlement issues, ambition, work -life balance and gender bias prevalent in society. [22][23][24] Several studies which reported gender preferences in selecting specialities across the globe, our study too showed a similar trend with higher Odds ratio favouring females in obstetrics and gynaecology while more male in surgical and medicine disciplines. 14,[25][26][27][28] It is a paradox that In India where more than 70% population live in rural areas, urban rural physician ration is 4:1.…”

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Professional outcome of medical graduates: a 17 year cross-sectional study from India

Pandey

Mishra²,

Markandeywar

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: In India, long term data regarding professional outcomes and geographical distribution of enrolled medical graduates is lacking. This adversely impacts policy for efficient healthcare delivery. Methods: A cross sectional survey of students enrolled as medical graduates in year 2001 was done at single point follow up after 17 years. Along with demographic data, gender, seat quota, post-graduate qualification, type of practice, discipline of choice and current geographic locations were collected. Logistical regression model with odds ratio was used to analyse association between variables. Results: 192/200 medical graduates were analysed. Male: female ratio was 119: 73. 109 (56%) had post-graduate degree, 35 (18%) had post-graduate diploma, while another 24 (12.8%) completed super-specialty degree.125 (65%) completed post-graduation in clinical disciplines. 103 (54%) are serving government institutes. 54 (28%) practice in metro cities, while 48 (25%) are in non-metro capital urban locations. Only 44 (23%) are serving rural Indian population, while 17 (9%) are at foreign countries. General medicine (12.5%), obstetrics (8%), paediatrics (8%) anaesthesia (7%) and general surgery (6.7%) were the most common broad clinical specialities. Females had high likelihood to pursue obstetrics/ gynaecology {OR-11.4 (95%CI-2.6-48.7)}; while males were more likely to select medical {OR-0.54 (95% CI-0.25-1.0)} and surgical disciplines {OR- 0.42 (95% CI-0.18-0.98)}. Conclusions: Majority of medical graduates complete post-graduation courses, with preference for clinical disciplines. Less than one fourth of doctors serve rural population.

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Professional outcome of medical graduates: a 17 year cross-sectional study from India

Pandey

Mishra²,

Markandeywar

2017

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…Although Bhargava (1983) found sex stereotypes in the medical specialties in India, the data presented here point out that this is only so with regard to obstetrics and gynaecology, surgery and orthopaedics. Bhargava's observations were based on the responses of the students in one medical college, when they were doing the housemanship in 1973.…”

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“…Understanding the attitudes of medical students has become an important component of research in medical education since the publication of The Student Physician (Merton et al 1957) and Boys in White (Becker et al 1961). There have been many studies in this area, some of which have focused on medical students’ attitudes towards medical specialties (Bruhn & Parsons 1964; Coker et al 1966; Miller et al 1966; Last & Stanley 1968; Ramalingaswami & Neki 1971; Anderson 1975; Matteson & Smith 1977; Ramalingaswami 1980; Bhargava 1983; Konefal & Provenzo 1983).…”

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Specialty choice of medical students in India

Ramalingaswami¹

1987

Medical Education

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The objectives of this study are to investigate undergraduate medical students' attitudes towards different specialties and to investigate whether there are any differences between the attitudes of students of different sex and different socio-economic background. The sample consisted of 692 final-year students from 11 medical colleges in India. Scale values were worked out to find out the actual distance between students' attitudes. Sex differences were observed in the attitude towards surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopaedics, microbiology, social and preventive medicine and anatomy. There were no statistically significant differences between the attitudes of students from different socio-economic backgrounds.

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Professional identification: A study of female students at a medical college in India

Bhargava

1985

Social Science & Medicine

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Sex-stereotyping and sex-congruency: Components in the sex role definition of medical specialities in India

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Professional outcome of medical graduates: a 17 year cross-sectional study from India

Professional outcome of medical graduates: a 17 year cross-sectional study from India

Specialty choice of medical students in India

Professional identification: A study of female students at a medical college in India

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