@article{0c275c49c48548548d582aa18120ec10,
title = "Integrating topics of sex and gender into medical curricula - Lessons from the international community",
abstract = "In the era of individualized medicine, training future scientists and health-care providers in the principles of sex- and gender-based differences in health and disease is critical in order to optimize patient care. International successes to incorporate these concepts into medical curricula can provide a template for others to follow. Methodologies and resources are provided that can be adopted and adapted to specific needs of other institutions and learning situations.",
keywords = "Educational platforms, Resources, Web-based",
author = "Miller, {Virginia M.} and Georgios Kararigas and Ute Seeland and Vera Regitz-Zagrosek and Karolina Kublickiene and Gillian Einstein and Robert Casanova and Legato, {Marianne J.}",
note = "Funding Information: The earliest and most basic component was the development of an open-access database of gender medicine. The GenderMed database (http://gendermeddb.charite.de) was established through the systematic collection of literature on gender-related issues across ten major medical disciplines in a structured manner, including cardiology, endocrinology, and neurology [3]. The database was made possible by two grants from the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF, 2008–2010 and 2012–2014). It includes more than 11,000 publications that deal with sex and gender in medicine and research, thereby offering a comprehensive overview of sex and gender medicine and research. In particular, the GenderMed database is a free user-friendly tool that is crucial for the retrieval, analysis, and archiving of literature specific to gender medicine, and it can also be used as a training tool in medical schools, postgraduate programs, and vocational training of doctors and researchers. Funding Information: Funding for the international panel was supported through the efforts of the 2015 Sex and Gender Medical Education Summit and its premier sponsors (American Medical Women{\textquoteright}s Association, Laura W. Bush Institute for Women{\textquoteright}s Health, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Mayo Clinic, and Society for Women{\textquoteright}s Health Research). GK, US, and VRZ are supported by a grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); KK is supported by funds from the Karolinska Institute and Centre for Gender Medicine; JE is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, The Institute of Gender and Health, and the Women{\textquoteright}s College Hospital, Toronto, Canada; and VMM is supported, in part, by grants from the National Institutes of Health AG44170 and HL90639. Publication of this article was funded by the Sex and Gender Medical Education Summit. Funding Information: Involvement of students and inter-professional faculty from the beginning of the process also led to the development of award-winning online interactive modules covering topics, such as osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and others. Designed as brief, three-part interactive modules, the components can be threaded throughout a block, a course, or several years. Additionally, these modules can be used as stand-alone elements or as resources for flipped classrooms, where the module is assigned as homework and the class time can be reserved for discussion or other interactive activities. Development of these modules was much more time intensive, requiring 6 to 12 months to develop and produce in collaboration with instructional designers from Texas Tech University{\textquoteright}s undergraduate campus. The cost of US$25,000 per module was covered by grants from the Laura W. Bush Institute as well as the Texas Tech University Health Science Center Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 The Author(s).",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1186/s13293-016-0093-7",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "7",
journal = "Biology of Sex Differences",
issn = "2042-6410",
publisher = "BioMed Central",
}