Comparing gender awareness in Dutch and Swedish first-year medical students - Results from a questionaire

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Andersson, Jenny ^a   Verdonk, Petra ^b   Johansson, Eva E ^a   Lagro Janssen, Toine ^c   Hamberg, Katarina ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attitudes; gender; gender implementation; Medical curricula; medical students; stereotypical thinking

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, UNDERGRADUATE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MEN; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; SWEDEN; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855602545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-12-3     Document Type: Article

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