From gender bias to gender awareness in medical education

Advances in Health Sciences Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 135-152

  Verdonk, Petra ^a,b   Benschop, Yvonne W M ^c   De Haes, Hanneke C J M ^d   Lagro Janssen, Toine L M ^b  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Equality; Equity; Gender awareness; Gender bias; Gender health issues; Gender mainstreaming; Gender role ideology; Implementation; Medical curricula; Medical education

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 60449107906     PISSN: 13824996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10459-008-9100-z     Document Type: Article

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