Gender in Medicine
Activity
PC Session
PC Session
Dr. May Cohen is a brilliant Canadian physician and women’s rights trailblazer. For over 60 years, she has advocated powerfully in Canada and internationally for women’s reproductive rights, women’s health and women physicians’ advancement — and in the end, for us all.
Curriculum Block
Part 4 / Professional Competencies 4 / Week 2
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
General Objectives
- Analyze the influence of gender on health concerns and health care provision.
- Analyze and critically reflect on how the impact of physician power and privilege may contribute to disparities through biased care.
- Recommend responses to key social and cultural factors that lead to poor health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
Assessments
PC Final Student Assessment
PC Interim Student Assessment
Tags
Curriculum Block
Part 4
Professional Competencies 4
Week 2
Curriculum Week
Part 4
Week 2
MCC Presentations
Providing anti-oppressive health care
McMaster Program Competencies
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
5.6 Demonstrate a critical understanding of personal, professional and institutional power and privilege and utilize anti-oppressive practice to create patient experiences where marginalization and oppression are minimized.
6.1 Understand the systems of healthcare, including federal, provincial, municipal and local, and the influences they have on the health of individuals and populations
MeSH
Physicians [N02.360.810]
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion [I01.076.201.450.350.500]
Reproductive Rights [I01.880.604.473.675]
Sexism [F01.145.813.629.750]
Social Discrimination [F01.145.813.629]
Women's Health [N01.400.900]
Women's Rights [I01.880.604.473.850]
