Women's Health Care Competencies for Medical Students
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Competency is noted when a student is observed performing a task or function that has been established as a standard by the profession. The achievement of professional competency requires the articulation of learning objectives as observable, measurable outcomes for a specific level of student performance. Such specific detailing of performance expectations defines educational competencies. They are verified on the basis of evidence documenting student achievement, and must be clearly communicated to students, faculty and institutional leaders prior to assessment.

Women's Health - Adopted by the National Academy on Women's Health Medical Education (NAWHME) September 26, 1994.

Women's Health is devoted to facilitating the preservation of wellness and prevention of illness in women and includes screening, diagnosis and management of conditions which are unique to women, are more common or more serious in women, or have manifestations, risk factors or interventions which are different in women.

Women's Health is necessarily interdisciplinary, holistic and woman-centered. It recognizes the importance of the study of gender differences, recognizes multidisciplinary team approaches, includes the values and knowledge of women and their own experience of health and illness, recognizes the diversity of women's health needs over the life cycle, and how these needs reflect differences in class, ethnicity, culture, sexual preference, levels of education and access to medical care. Women's health includes empowerment of women, as for all patients, to be informed participants in their own health care.

Sex and Gender Differences - Pinn VW. Women's health research: progress and future directions. Acad Med. 1999; 74:1104-5.

Sex refers to biologically-based differences (being male and female).

Gender denotes those qualities that are culturally-shaped variations between men and women, or that result from social processes or expectations of being male or female.