Subjectivity of Nursing College Students' Awareness of Gender Equality: An Application of Q-methodology

윤은자,; 권혜진,; 김현정,

doi:10.4040/jkan.2012.42.3.342

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“…We found that the 7 th ‐year students complained that the attitude of the faculty in treating students was different according to gender in comparison to the junior students. Gender awareness is critical to provide gender‐specific health care, and how to integrate gender awareness and related issues into the medical curriculum to diminish gender misunderstanding and prejudice on health and disease is mandatory, not only in Taiwan, but worldwide [6,7,22]. Personalized and advanced courses specifically targeting medical students and physicians of different genders should be developed to improve physician's competency and enhance patient care quality [23,24].…”

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“…The traditional 7‐year medical curriculum in Taiwan has been basically divided into three phases, that is, pre‐med for the first 2 years, basic sciences for 2 years, and clinical medicine (clerkship and internship) for 3 years. A fundamental imbalance exists between the science and the humanities in medical education, and gender issues have long been overlooked in medical education [3], and attempts to integrate these topics into medical curricula have been made [4–8]. The proportions of gender‐related courses of medical programs leading to MD degree are currently approximately 0.4–0.5% in Taiwan's medical schools.…”

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Perceptions on gender awareness and considerations in career choices of medical students in a medical school in Taiwan

Chung

Lin

Huang

et al. 2013

The Kaohsiung J of Med Scie

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The trend of medical career choice in the younger generation has resulted in deficiency of manpower in the four major disciplines of internal medicine, surgery, obstetrics/gynecology, and pediatrics, which will threaten people's health care in Taiwan. However, perceptions of gender awareness and factors affecting the career choices of medical students have not been investigated systemically in Taiwan. To explore the perceptions on gender awareness and considerations in career choices, we recruited 280 1(st)- and 7(th)-year male and female medical students at a Medical University for the study. A modified Nijmegen questionnaire using a 5-point Likert scale containing medical curricula (18 items), gender awareness (13 items), and career inclination (9 items) was adopted as the investigation tool in our study. The response rate was 75% (224/280). With regard to gender, the 1(st)-year male students had greater confidence in being a physician than the female students (p < 0.05), and female students subjectively suggested an advantage to communicate with patients or colleagues (p < 0.05). Faculty attitude in treating students differently by gender was more prominent in the 7(th)-year than in the 1(st)-year students (p < 0.001), and they felt male preceptors typically were more enthusiastic to teach and to rank higher grades to female than to male students; however, this was not observed among female preceptors. Both male and female students showed a low level of agreement that clinical skills and performance of a physician were significantly different by gender and "female physicians are more empathetic and provide more communications than male physicians". Factors influencing career choices of medical students, including "personal interests/talents" and "academic achievement of the specialty," were not significantly different by gender. Factors included "training and learning environments of the specialty", "risk of lawsuit", and "economic incentive" were more appreciated by the senior than the junior students (p < 0.05). Effect of "family" or "spouse" did not differ significantly regardless of gender or seniority. The 7(th)-year students had experiences in clinical medicine and had different considerations in career choice in comparison to the 1(st)-year students, and gender played a role in senior students. In addition, the senior rather than the junior students regarded "training and learning environments", "risk of lawsuit", and "economic incentive" as more important factors affecting the career choices, and male students paid more attention to these issues. Other factors such as fixed hours of duty with no emergency, easier lifestyle, and more time to take care his/her families were also important factors affecting career choice in medical students regardless of their gender; however, the junior students disclosed lower concern on the issues. In addition, four major misperceptions of gender and health issues were prevalent in the 7(th)-year students; therefore, we recognized the importance of integrating gender i...

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