Sexism in a UK-wide medical examination.
gender inequality
medical education
medical examinations
Journal
Clinical medicine (London, England)
ISSN: 1473-4893
Titre abrégé: Clin Med (Lond)
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101092853
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
11 2022
11 2022
Historique:
entrez:
25
11
2022
pubmed:
26
11
2022
medline:
30
11
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Gender bias and sexism in the health profession in the UK has been highlighted as a major problem. Efforts to reduce this must include medical training and examinations. The Situational Judgment Test (SJT) is an examination that must be passed to work as a foundation doctor in the UK; and is taken by all UK medical students. We analysed gender balance in all 215 scenarios included in the official practice papers for the SJT. We found that senior doctors were more than twice as likely to be men than women, while there was no significant gender difference in representation of foundation year-1 doctors, other health professionals or patients/relatives. This inequality has the potential to reinforce gender biases in healthcare. Medical examinations can, instead, represent an opportunity for prejudices to be challenged.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36427892
pii: 22/6/584
doi: 10.7861/clinmed.2022-0360
pmc: PMC9761430
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
584-585Informations de copyright
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