Gender Can Influence Student Experiences in MD-PhD Training.

ABSTRACT: Background: Female physician-scientists have led major advances in medicine broadly and particularly in women's health. Women remain underrepresented in dual MD-PhD degree programs that train many physician-scientists despite gender parity among medical and biomedical research students. Materials and Methods: To explore how the training environment might be experienced differently for male and female students in one MD-PhD program, the authors analyzed gender differences in annual symposium speakers with exact binomial tests, student participation as question-askers at a weekly seminar with logistic regression, and number of publications with quasi-Poisson generalized linear models. They compared male and female students' perceptions of gender-based discriminati

SUBMITTER: Heffron AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7826439 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature