Women continue to make up the majority of medical school applicants, matriculants, and total enrollment. Experts share what’s fueling the ongoing rise of women in medical school.
When she was an undergraduate, internist Theresa Rohr-Kirchgraber, MD, remembers having second thoughts about going into nursing as originally planned. She spoke with a college counselor about her desire to go to medical school instead.
Forty years later, the landscape for women in medical school — and the stereotypes associated — have vastly changed, said Rohr-Kirchgraber, a professor of medicine at Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership in Athens, Georgia, and a married, mother of three. Women now outnumber men in medical school, a trend that continues to rise.
“It’s not that women are only now interested in higher education, medicine, science, STEM fields,” Lautenberger said. “Women have always been interested in these fields. They have just not been socially accepted or allowed to go into them in such higher numbers.” “There’s a phrase called the ‘feminization of medicine’ in that we are seeing more women coming into it,” she said. “The result is almost this return of viewing medicine as this profession of healing and caring. This idea that physicians are not just in surgery in the operating room performing operations on patients, but that medicine really is about holistic care.
Women physician role models and senior women leaders have also played a role, Rohr-Kirchgraber said. Organizations like the American Medical Women’s Association and their leaders have helped pave the way for young women physicians, she said. “They’re more empathetic. They listen more,” she said. “The impact that we’re seeing is ultimately positive for public health, for society, and for the profession at large. Not to mention about half the entire population are women. Just having that representational workforce becomes really important and ultimately better for public health.
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