Sex and Gender is Everywhere

This session educates faculty to address a knowledge gap and teaches a toolkit for participants to use in assessing and revising their curricula, slides, lectures, simulation cases, and bedside teaching to include evidence-based sex and gender content. Topics discussed include:

  • The difference between sex and gender
  • Common emergency presentations with evidence supporting sex and gender-based differences
  • "Atypical symptoms" and disparities in clinical outcomes experienced by women vs. men
  • A checklist and toolkit for revising education presented to learners
  • Resources to make the incorporation of sex and gender easier