In Medical Education, an Uphill Road To Eliminate Gender Biases
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# An essay prompt in a final-year paper for Bachelor of Ayurvedic and Medicine Surgery students in Karnataka was: “Women as an aphrodisiac medicine/syrup”.
# Sexism in medicine is not a new phenomenon. Several elements of it have existed in medical textbooks and syllabi, and both within and beyond Ayurveda.
# Medical students are not equipped to deal with the consequences of discrimination faced by women, tribal people and people from socio-economically marginalised groups.
# The National Hea
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Amruta Bavadekar, Sangeeta Rege
28 Jun 2022
Science The Wire.in
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Gender equity in India’s medical education is still out of reach
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A review of five subjects in the undergraduate medical education curriculum found that they do a poor job of integrating the social determinants of health. Perhaps the most notable absence is issues pertaining to violence against women, given domestic violence is today recognised as a public health issue.
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Sangeeta Rege, Ajinkya Deshmukh,
24 Oct 2021
Science The Wire.in
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MUKTA: A journey from dark to dawn – A doctor’s experience of responding to violence against women in India
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Project implemented by Miraj Medical College in collaboration with the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes and the World Health Organization
Mukta means to be free from all restrictions, free to live one’s own life, with one’s principles and without any domination.
After working on the MUKTA project for about a year, we felt it was time to share something about our contribution.
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Jyoti Rokade
10 Jun 2021
Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)
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The history of India's skewed sex ratio
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A video giving information on India's skewed sex ratio, by Mary John a Professor with Centre for Women's Development Studies.
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Mary John
29 Jul 2020
The Swaddle
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