Article: Medical students' gender-specific examination performance.(Report)

Research on gender differences in medicine has centered on the position of women as better communicators, more involved with psychosocial problems and female-specific problems. Hardly any research has examined the interaction between a doctor's gender and gender-specific examinations (Zaharias, Piterman, & Liddell, 2004).

The importance of physician gender in patient health outcomes has been recognized for some time in the West. However, there is little known about the contribution of different gender identities to a variety of positive health outcomes in non-Western countries (Tavakol, Rahamei-Madeseh, Torabi, & Goode, 2006). There may be a powerful interaction ...

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