Abstract
Women make up more than half of the population, yet most medical students by the end of medical school equate women's health with reproduction and Papanicolaou smears and the 6- to 8-week obstetrics and gynecology clerkship. Medical education fails to relay the broad comprehensive entity of women's health. Women's health is hypertension screening, dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry bone scans for osteoporosis, and evaluations for depression. Women's health is not only prenatal care and routine gynecologic examinations, but truly the largest domain in medicine: the domain that handles comprehensive physical and mental health of women. Unfortunately, this thread of women's health is not clearly demonstrated in medical education, and consequently, as medical students go through many of their rotations, educational points are missed. Medical education has a responsibility to graduate physicians who have universal, core competencies. There must be a set of competencies that integrate all specialties as if there were a continuous free-flowing track in medical school for women's health. In broader terms, comprehensive health care for women requires an interdisciplinary model in the way women's health is approached and taught in medical school.
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