A response to 'Bridging the Gender Gap in Communication Skills' by Wu and McLaughlin (2012)

摘要

Wu and McLaughlin (2012) have cast a thoughtful eye on the topic of the physician gender gap in the arena of communication skills, which has been supported by our recent findings (Swygert et al. 2011), along with many others. They note that the findings are very consistent in the literature, but we think it's worthwhile to point out an additional benefit-and some caveats-to including the results of our study, which used USMLE? Step 2 Clinical Skills (CS) data, in the discussion of whether the communication gender gap can, or should, be addressed within undergraduate medical education.