Sex and Gender Medical Education Summit: a roadmap for curricular innovation.

Marley Hoggatt,Kimberly Templeton,Eliza L. Chin,Alyson J. McGregor,Robert Casanova,Marjorie Jenkins,Mary K. Rojek,Wendy S. Klein,Virginia M. Miller

doi:10.1186/s13293-016-0091-9

Abstract

The Sex and Gender Medical Education Summit: a roadmap for curricular innovation was a collaborative initiative of the American Medical Women's Association, Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health, Mayo Clinic, and Society for Women's Health Research (www.sgbmeducationsummit.com). It was held on October 18–19, 2015 to provide a unique venue for collaboration among nationally and internationally renowned experts in developing a roadmap for the incorporation of sex and gender based concepts into medical education curricula. The Summit engaged 148 in-person attendees for the 1 1/2-day program. Pre- and post-Summit surveys assessed the impact of the Summit, and workshop discussions provided a framework for informal consensus building. Sixty-one percent of attendees indicated that the Summit had increased their awareness of the importance of sex and gender specific medicine. Other comments indicate that the Summit had a significant impact for motivating a call to action among attendees and provided resources to initiate change in curricula within their home institutions. These educational efforts will help to ensure a sex and gender basis for delivery of health care in the future.

Highlights

Introduction of an LGBTCurriculum at the University of California, San FranciscoSex and Gender Based Medicine in Interprofessional Education: Putting it All TogetherWorkshop A: Utilization of Sex and gender based medicine (SGBM) Resources in U.S Medical Schools: Overcoming Barriers to Achieve ActionWorkshop B: Creating SGBM Student Competencies in Alignment with the American Medical Colleges (AAMC)From Roadmap to Reality: Your Role as a Change Agent
The Sex and Gender Medical Education (SGME) Summit was planned with the goals of increasing participants’ awareness of the current level of knowledge regarding sex and gender differences, identifying areas where additional research is needed, highlighting gaps in medical education, providing educational resources to assist with the integration of sex and gender evidence into medical school curricula, promoting sex and gender networks, and advocating for this change
The pre- and post-surveys confirmed that attendees were positively impacted and their knowledge, attitudes, and awareness altered by this educational experience

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Introduction of an LGBTCurriculum at the University of California, San FranciscoSex and Gender Based Medicine in Interprofessional Education: Putting it All TogetherWorkshop A: Utilization of SGBM Resources in U.S Medical Schools: Overcoming Barriers to Achieve ActionWorkshop B: Creating SGBM Student Competencies in Alignment with the AAMCFrom Roadmap to Reality: Your Role as a Change Agent. Sex and gender based medicine (SGBM) is the science of similarities and differences in the human biology of men and women, both in health and disease. A 2001 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report emphasized that sex-based differences were due to more than hormonal differences and that “every cell has a sex” [2] Both the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and NIH have expanded requirements that both vertebrate and human research include males and females and that collective data should be analyzed by sex as an independent variable. Sex and gender are interrelated in terms of health and illness, such that one’s social environment and behaviors, both of which are gendered, influence one’s biology

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