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What Should Be Taught and What Is Taught: Integrating Gender into Medical and Health Professions Education for Medical and Nursing Students

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  • Hsing-Chen Yang

    (Graduate Institute of Gender Studies, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City 80708, Taiwan)

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This study focused on gender education for medical and nursing students, because gender competency is essential for them to provide effective and appropriate healthcare and to promote equal rights to health. A questionnaire was administered to 50 health care professionals to explore the gender concepts and gender knowledge that they deem imperative and often teach to medical and nursing undergraduate students in class. Sexism, gender awareness, sexual harassment, the topics of three acts related to gender equity, and patriarchy are the gender concepts participants deemed most crucial for students to learn and understand. However, disparities were noted between the gender concepts frequently taught by the participants and the gender knowledge they considered essential for students. The 50 experts emphasized teaching the concept of patriarchy and the cultivation of students’ structural competency in addition to identifying directions for gender, medical, and health care education. By highlighting the key gender-related concepts, the present research findings may benefit teachers who intend to integrate gender into the curriculum but are limited by time constraints. The results offer a professional development direction for teachers endeavoring to incorporate gender into the curriculum and their teaching.

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  • Hsing-Chen Yang, 2020. "What Should Be Taught and What Is Taught: Integrating Gender into Medical and Health Professions Education for Medical and Nursing Students," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(18), pages 1-18, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:18:p:6555-:d:410929
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