By focusing on the following programs, the SGWHC aims to achieve our mission:
- Interactive Sex & Gender Web-based Resources:
Our collaborative has created a digitally accessible compendium of sex- and gender specific curricular materials, teaching tools, presentations, original research articles, online continuing education opportunities and medical meetings, primarily for faculty and students. Originally located at Medpedia, we have moved to an independent website that brings this content to a single focused website that also has the capacity for interactive communication and social networking opportunities (particularly for medical students). The breadth of resources will enable faculty to readily adopt and adapt sex and gender content into their courses.
In Collaboration with Certification and Accrediting Organizations:
- National Board of Medical Examiners [NBME]:
The SGWHC approached the NBME about reviewing its examinations for sex and gender content. Once accepted, the SGWHC formed a task force of 30 specialists in sex and gender medicine to develop a list of health conditions with an evidence basis for sex and/or gender differences in etiology, presentation, evaluation, treatment, or prevention. This information will guide an assessment of Step 1, 2, and 3 exams to identify areas or language that may need to be updated, or to address gaps in knowledge. This content review is a great advance toward ensuring that all medical students and future physicians are prepared to address the impact of sex and gender factors on health.
- Inter-Professional Collaboration in Women’s Health Curricula Expert Panel
Founding members, Justina Trott MD and Marjorie Jenkins MD represent SGWHC on this panel of health professionals that include representatives from dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and public health, as well as members from HRSA, CDC, FDA, and ORWH. The panel’s goals are to identity common priorities and barriers in women’s health curricula, consider guidelines for inter-professional collaboration, and formulate recommendations for dissemination and inclusion of report findings to key stakeholders.
- Showcasing the Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative at Medical Meetings
2012 Presentations and Alliances
- Congress: 20th Congress of Women’s Health
- March 16-18, 2012, Washington, DC
- Poster Presentation: “Translating Sex and Gender Specific Science into Clinical Practice.”
- AMWA: American Medical Women’s Association Annual Meeting
- April 12-15, 2012, Miami
- Display Table
- Presentation: “Sex and Gender Specific Women’s Health: A Paradigm for Curricular Change”
- AWAEM: Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine
- May 9-12, 2012, Chicago
- Poster Presentation: “Integrating Sex and Gender Differences into Medical Education.”
- OSSD: Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Annual Meeting
- June 7-9, 2012, Baltimore
- Poster Presentation: “Rhetoric to Action: National Initiatives to Integrate Evidence-Based Sex and Gender Differences into Medical Education.”
- Presentation: “Sex and Gender in Medical Education.”
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- September 24-25, 2012, Rochester, MN
- “Creating Consensus: Embedding Concets of Sex and Gender Health Differences into Medical Curricula”
- Presenting Workshop: “Development of Digital Resources of Sex and Gender Specific Research and Teaching Tools.”
- Presentation: “Evaluating Gaps in Sex and Gender Medicine and the Need to Fill Them.”
- NAMS: North American Menopause Society
- October 3-6, 2012, Orlando
- Poster Presentation: “Women’s Health in Medical Education.”
- Poster Presentation: “Integrating Evidence-Based Sex and Gender Differences into Medical Education.”
- CIHR: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- October 29-21, 2012, Montreal
- “Advancing Excellence in Gender , Sex, and Health Research.”
- Poster Presentation: “ Women’s Health in Medical Education.”
- NBME: National Board of Medical Examiners
- November 15-16, 2012
- Working Group members to meet with the NBME question writers in Philadelphia
- Evaluate Step 1,2, and 3 exams for sex and gender content and identify gaps