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. The breadth of resources will enable faculty to readily adopt and adapt sex and gender content into their courses.
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
Presentations and Alliances
- Congress: 20th Congress of Women’s Health
- AMWA: American Medical Women’s Association Annual Meeting
- AWAEM: Academy of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine
- OSSD: Organization for the Study of Sex Differences Annual Meeting
- 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
- CIHR: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- 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