Box 1.

Criteria of an integrated gender perspective in the medical curricula

1. Students are able to recognize and explain sex/gender differences with regard to issues, such as pharmacotherapy, urinary tract infections and other micturition complaints, sexual abuse and violence, partner violence, cardiovascular disease and communication 2. These sex/gender differences are included in the objectives of the education received by students 3. Students have received education that focused on both biomedical and psychosocial differences 4. Students have received education on sex/gender differences over the course of several study years (minimum 2 years) 5. Students have received education in which specific attention was paid to sex/gender differences in at least 6–8 courses (of 2–4 weeks) in the core curriculum 6. Students have been given the opportunity to take one extra optional course on sex/gender, whether or not in combination with ethnicity/culture