The Integration of Gender Medicine in Medical Education at Austrian Universities – the Status Quo

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. The work at hand examines the current status of the implementation of Gender Medicine in medical education at all Austrian universities. To date no systematic studies have been conducted on this subject. This study covers public as well as private universities.The methodology was to first conduct a document analysis, followed by a questionnaire survey.Analysis of the documents showed that Gender Medicine is often combined with affirmative action for women, equal treatment and/or gender studies. These subjects are frequently combined in order to meet legal requirements, which often results in unclear and vague statements of goals. The results show that, at least formally, Gender Medicine has been integrated at all the Austrian universities by being anchored in their curricula. Actual implementation in everyday university studies has been achieved very differently at the various universities and is more or less sustainable.The development of uniform standards and criteria would be a next important step for the Austrian universities.