What do medical schools teach about womens health and gender differences?
Henrich JB; Viscoli CM Medicine and of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. janet.henrich@yale.edu PURPOSE: To examine the curricula of U.S. medical schools to assess the inclusion of women’s health and gender-specific information and identify institutional characteristics associated with this content. METHOD: Using data from the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Curriculum Management and Information Tool (CurrMIT), in November 2003 to February 2004 the authors performed a curriculum search of schools that entered course/clerkships in CurrMIT to identify interdisciplinary women’s health or gender-specific courses/clerkships. A subset of schools that entered comprehensive information in CurrMIT was searched for a specified list of women’s health topics and or gender-specific content on any topic. Statistical analyses were performed to assess the relationship between frequency of topics and sc
