Table 2 Overall strategies for incorporating SGBM into undergraduate medical education
Developmental stage | Strategies | Examples |
|---|---|---|
Planning | Raise awareness | SGBM Education Summit [1] |
Identify stakeholders and formulate a SGBM advisory committee | Source experts, educational experts, certifying and assessment agencies, medical school deans, faculty, students | |
Assess curricular need | Needs assessment survey | |
Collaborate with core faculty | Medical education deans and directors, curriculum development faculty of preclinical and clinical instruction, course leaders | |
Review existing curricula for adaptation components | Alpert Medical School of Brown University [9] Texas Tech University Health Science Center [10] Charité Hospital (Germany) [11] Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) [12] The Institute of Gender and Health (Canada) [13] The University of Toronto’s Collaborative Graduate Program in Women’s Health (Canada) [14] | |
Implementation | Integrate resources into existing educational activities | Texas Tech University SGBM Curriculum: clinical cases, slide library, and learning modules [10]. PubMed Search Tool [15] |
Faculty development | Texas Tech University Laura W. Bush Institute for Women’s Health “Y does X make a difference” SGBM continuing medical education [16], collaborative planning and implementation of skills development and team-building among faculty, development of a train-the-trainer approach. | |
National organizations | Liaison Committee on Medical Education Association of American Medical Colleges Sex and Gender Women’s Health Collaborative American Medical Women’s Association | |
Student involvement | Identify student leaders to join SGBM Advisory Committee | |
Develop shared materials | Online modules, educational portfolios, premade lecture slides, smartphone technology | |
Evaluation | Student assessment | Incorporate into existing student assessments of written exams, participation in problem-based learning small group sessions, and core clerkship performance-based methods |
Program evaluation | Interprofessional education and patient-centered outcome measurement. Consider W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Logic Model [17] |