December 18, 2020
The Next Generation
Women’s Health Research at Yale and Yale School of Medicine’s Office of Education are integrating findings and best practices on sex-and-gender differences into the school s curriculum.
Photo by Robert Lisak
A steadily growing body of research over decades demonstrates the value of studying the health of women and how sex and gender influence health. These findings cover a wide variety of diseases and conditions and include sex-and-gender differences in prevalence, risk factors, how diseases and conditions develop over time, and the safety and efficacy of treatments.
However, medical students are not widely taught this data-based information. Women’s Health Research at Yale and Yale School of Medicine’s (YSM’s) Office of Education are changing this.