Presents case studies different countries that illustrate the importance of gender education for health professionals. Includes tips and strategies that can help expand professional perspectives to include gender-related social understandings of health and illness.
Represents 125 accredited U.S. medical schools, 17 accredited Canadian medical schools, 400 major teaching hospitals, including 98 affiliated health systems and 68 Veterans Affairs medical centers, 94 academic and professional societies, representing 109,000 faculty members, and the US's 67,000 medical students and 104,000 residents.
Describes teaching tools that support cross-disciplinary, multidisciplinary, and interdisciplinary learning and promote the integration of sex- and gender-based science into the medical curriculum.
Presents a strategy for residency faculty development in women's health, the reasons that such a strategy is necessary, and the residency program's experience with its development and implementation.
