Gender Bias: Another Rising Curve to Flatten?
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From gender bias to gender awareness in medical education.
Gender is an essential determinant of health and illness. Gender awareness in doctors contributes to equity and equality in health and aims towards better health for men and women. Nevertheless, gender has largely been ignored in medicine. First, it is stated that medicine was 'gender blind' by not considering gender whenever relevant. Secondly, medicine is said to be 'male biased' because the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Medicine
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1040-2446
DOI: 10.1097/acm.0000000000003987