Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Can Med Educ J. 2024 Feb 29;15(1):48-55. doi: 10.36834/cmej.75919. eCollection 2024 Feb.
Female physicians and patients experience gender bias in healthcare. The purpose of this research is to explore medical students' gender bias toward physicians and patients and whether their bias varies by gender.
We surveyed medical students at Memorial University between November 2020 and April 2021. We recruited participants through Facebook, email, and e-posters. We collected demographic information, including gender and class year. We used the Nijmegen Gender Awareness in Medicine Scale to measure gender sensitivity, gender role ideology toward patients, and gender role ideology toward doctors. We analyzed the data using averages and t-tests.
Mean gender sensitivity scores were 4/5 indicating high gender sensitivity. Gender role ideology toward doctors mean scores were 2/5 indicating that students did not hold strong stereotypical views toward doctors. Although male students scored higher than female students (p<.05), mean scores for gender role ideology toward patients were low for both male and female students ( <2), indicating low stereotyping toward patients.
We found that students held largely non-biased ideologies surrounding gender in medicine and that female students were even less biased than male students for gender role ideology toward patients.
女性医生和患者在医疗保健中会经历性别偏见。本研究旨在探讨医学生对医生和患者的性别偏见，以及他们的偏见是否因性别而异。
我们在 2020 年 11 月至 2021 年 4 月期间对纪念大学的医学生进行了调查。我们通过 Facebook、电子邮件和电子海报招募参与者。我们收集了人口统计学信息，包括性别和年级。我们使用尼梅根医学性别意识量表来衡量性别敏感度、对患者的性别角色观念和对医生的性别角色观念。我们使用平均值和 t 检验分析数据。
平均性别敏感度得分为 4/5，表明性别敏感度高。对医生的性别角色观念的平均得分为 2/5，表明学生对医生没有强烈的刻板印象。尽管男学生的得分高于女学生（p<.05），但男学生和女学生对患者的性别角色观念的平均得分都较低（<2），表明对患者的刻板印象较低。
我们发现，学生在医学领域对性别持有基本无偏见的观念，而且女学生对患者的性别角色观念比男学生的偏见更小。
