Differences in clinical experiences based on gender of third-year medical students in a required family medicine preceptorship

Barcey T Levy; Mary L Merchant

doi:10.1097/00001888-200212000-00021

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Differences in clinical experiences based on gender of third-year medical students in a required family medicine preceptorship

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Differences in clinical experiences based on gender of third-year medical students in a required family medicine preceptorship

Barcey T Levy and Mary L Merchant

Academic medicine, Vol.77(12 Pt 1), pp.1241-1246

12/2002

DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200212000-00021

PMID: 12480635

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Abstract

To investigate whether the gender of a student or preceptor affects the students' level of experience with clinical skills in a preceptorship. A total of 451 third-year medical students completed a required family medicine preceptorship during three academic years (1997-2000) at one medical school. Students recorded their highest levels of experience with 57 clinical skills at the completion of the preceptorship using a five-point scale. Mean levels of experience were compared according to student and preceptor gender and by student-preceptor gender dyads. For the majority of clinical skills, levels of experience did not differ according to gender of the student or preceptor. However, women students received more experience with seven of 12 female-specific skills and men students received more experience with two of three male-specific skills. Women preceptors provided more experience with seven of 12 female-specific skills, as well as with depression and anxiety; men preceptors provided more experience with procedures. For the vast majority of gender-specific skills, the highest levels of student experience were received by pairs of students and preceptors of the same gender who were seeing patients of their same gender; the lowest levels of experience occurred in student-preceptor pairs of the same gender seeing patients of the opposite gender. There was no evidence for student-preceptor interactions. The gender of a student and that of the preceptor affect the level of experience the student receives with a number of gender-specific skills and procedures. Ways should be found to minimize these differences in training.

Humans

Life Change Events

Preceptorship - organization & administration

Male

Students, Medical - statistics & numerical data

Preceptorship - statistics & numerical data

Education, Medical, Undergraduate - organization & administration

Time Factors

Education, Medical, Undergraduate - statistics & numerical data

Sex Factors

Clinical Competence - statistics & numerical data

Adult

Female

Family Practice - education

Family Practice - statistics & numerical data

Family Practice - organization & administration

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Title: Subtitle: Differences in clinical experiences based on gender of third-year medical students in a required family medicine preceptorship
Creators: Barcey T Levy - Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. barcey.levy@uiowa.edu
Mary L Merchant
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Academic medicine, Vol.77(12 Pt 1), pp.1241-1246
Publisher: United States
DOI: 10.1097/00001888-200212000-00021
PMID: 12480635
ISSN: 1040-2446
eISSN: 1938-808X
Grant note: 5 D05 HP87007-21 / PHS HHS
Language: English
Date published: 12/2002
Academic Unit: Epidemiology; Family and Community Medicine
Record Identifier: 9984024416602771

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