'So you row, do you? You don't look like a rower.' An account of medical students' experience of sexism

Medical Education

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1057-1063

  Nicholson, Sandra ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation, psychological; Attitude; Curriculum; Education, medical, undergraduate psychology; ; Great Britain; Sexism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; GYNECOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LEARNING; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; MEDICAL STUDENT; OBSTETRICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEACHER;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LONDON; MALE; PREJUDICE; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TEACHING;

EID: 0036429979     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.2002.01332.x     Document Type: Article

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