Table 2.
Medical student attitudes and perceptions of sex- and gender-based medicine, question 5
| I am familiar with the topic of sex and gender differences in medicine | Women’s Health focuses solely on issues specific to females (menarche, pregnancy, menopause) | Sex and gender medicine is the same as women’s health | Knowing sex and gender differences improves one’s ability to manage patients | The majority of medical knowledge is based on data obtained from males | Medical education should include the teaching of sex and gender differences | My medical education has included the teaching of sex and gender differences | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year in medical school | Percentage agree/strongly agree | ||||||
| First year | 79.3 | 31.2 | 4.0 | 97.8 | 58.3 | 93.8 | 48.6 |
| Second year | 86.4 | 29.6 | 1.6 | 96.2 | 63.9 | 94.8 | 62.8 |
| Third year | 87.1 | 31.1 | 1.3 | 94.0 | 63.8 | 93.2 | 57.4 |
| Fourth year | 89.1 | 33.3 | 1.6 | 95.3 | 63.1 | 94.8 | 66.7 |
| Average | 85.3 | 31.0 | 2.1 | 96.0 | 63.2 | 94.2 | 58.6 |
| ANOVA (p value) | 0.004 | 0.871 | 0.033 | 0.004 | 0.678 | 0.050 | 0.001 |
| ANOVA F | 4.527 | 0.236 | 2.914 | 4.533 | 0.506 | 2.615 | 5.246 |
Students were asked their level of agreement or disagreement via four-point Likert scale about certain statements regarding sex and gender education in medical education, from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”. (n = 1070)