Fitzpatrick K M, Wright M P
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
J Am Med Womens Assoc (1972). 1995 Nov-Dec;50(6):204-6.
Retention is a critical problem in medical school education. We report here on research that examined gender differences in attrition rates between 1973 and 1992. Using secondary data compiled from the annual reports on undergraduate education published in JAMA, both descriptive and inferential analyses of medical school attrition rates were conducted. Data show that medical school attrition rates have steadily increased across the country since 1973 and that women drop out of medical school at consistently greater rates than men. These results highlight the importance of future analyses that attempt to delineate the causes as well as the consequences of dropping out of medical school for women and the institutions that support them.
留级是医学院校教育中的一个关键问题。我们在此报告一项研究，该研究考察了1973年至1992年间退学率的性别差异。利用从《美国医学会杂志》发表的本科教育年度报告中汇编的二手数据，对医学院校的退学率进行了描述性和推断性分析。数据显示，自1973年以来，全国医学院校的退学率一直在稳步上升，而且女性从医学院校退学的比例一直高于男性。这些结果凸显了未来分析的重要性，这些分析试图阐明女性从医学院校退学的原因及其后果，以及为她们提供支持的机构。
