DOI: 10.5061/dryad.b8gtht7fq
title: Data for: Gender medicine teaching increases medical students' gender awareness: results of a quantitative online survey

description: Background Gender medical knowledge is insufficiently integrated into
 university teaching in Germany. Gender awareness represents a key
 competence to integrate this knowledge into one's medical practice.
 This study is the first survey of the gender awareness of medical students
 in Germany. Methods From April to July 2021, a quantitative
 cross-sectional survey in an online format using the 'Nijmegen Gender
 Awareness in Medicine Scale' (2008) was conducted at four German
 universities (Charité Berlin, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena,
 Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, and the University of Cologne) with
 a varied implementation of teaching gender medicine. Students indicated
 their agreement or disagreement with assumptions and knowledge about the
 influence of gender in everyday medical practice (gender sensitivity), as
 well as gender role stereotypes towards patients and physicians (gender
 role ideology).  Results The 750 included participants showed a
 relatively high gender sensitivity and low gender role stereotyping
 towards patients and doctors. The curricular implementation of gender
 medicine of the universities showed to have a significant influence on the
 students' gender sensitivity, as well as on their gender role
 stereotyping towards patients. Students who reported having taken classes
 in gender medicine showed significantly higher level of gender
 sensitivity. Cis-males showed significantly lower gender sensitivity and
 significantly higher gender role stereotyping. Conclusion Implementation
 of gender medicine in the medical curriculum, attending courses on gender
 education and one’s gender have a significant impact on medical
 students' gender competencies. These results support the need for
 structural integration of gender in medical education and gender trainings
 at medical schools in Germany.
description: We undertook a quantitative cross-sectional survey from April to
 July 2021. The survey took place via an online survey at two faculties
 with regular study programs (Friedrich Schiller University (FSU) Jena and
 Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) Munich) and two faculties with model
 study programs (Charité Berlin and the University of Cologne). Recruitment
 was via collaborations with the respective deans of studies, equal
 opportunity offices, and student council initiatives, as well as
 peer-to-peer recruitment via invitations via email, websites, and social
 media. The online survey included the used questionnaire N-GAMS to assess
 gender awareness as well as questions about socio-demographics (included
 in dataset). The items are collected using a 5-point
 Likert scale ranging from 1 = "strongly disagree" to 5 =
 "strongly agree". For the analysis, items 2 to 11 and 13 of the
 GS subscale were reversed, so that a high score corresponded to high
 gender sensitivity (1=minimum; 5=maximum). In the GRI-P and GRI-D
 subscales, a high value corresponded to a strong gender role stereotyping
 towards patients and physicians, respectively (1=maximum;
 5=minimum).
description: No specific software needed. We used the
 statistical software SPSS® Statistics 27.0 for the analysis.