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Impact of Gender on the Professional Socialization of Women Osteopathic Medical Students
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
A study of third and fourth year women medical students found that their gendered professional socialization shaped what they felt they could or could not do as future DOs.
Target Audience
Adult educators with an interest in gender and women’s issues, especially as these pertain to the study of women in medicine and their medical education and opportunities to practice as future physicians.
Learning Outcomes
Increase participants' understanding of how the perceptions formed by women medical students of their gendered medical socialization experiences influenced who they would become and what they would do as practicing physicians.
Session Description
The relevant literature reveals that the impact of gender on women's medical students development of their professional identities as future physicians is understudied. Further, the prevailing notion in medical education is that the concept of a physician professional identity is neutral and genderless. This study found that the seemingly genderless concept of a professional physician identity hides gender within it. Study participants’ revealed that their gendered personal identities strongly influenced what they felt they could or could not do with regard to their future medical careers and developing professional identities. The relevance of this study’s findings is that the guise of a genderless medical education program is unmasked to reveal that the professional identity of physicians is not neutral or genderless.
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Friday November 8
Primary Presenter
Dr. Linda J. Dunatov, University of Pikeville - Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine
Work Title
Associate Dean for Student Affairs
Additional Presenters: Enters In Order.
Dr. Susan J Bracken, NC State University
Work Title
Associate professor of Adult Education