Gender Lens Rounds

Gender Lens Rounds

Women’s College Hospital, affiliated with University of Toronto, holds Gender Lens Rounds monthly. These rounds are available here:[1]

Title	Presenter	Originally Presented	Length/Link
Cardiac Rehabilitation for Women and the Results of the Healthy Weight Programme	J. Price, D Rolfe and S. Sharma	December 10, 2008	56 minutes
Smoking and Screening: Moving into the 21st century	Dr. Anna Day	September 10, 2008	57 minutes
The Impact of Gender on Diabetes Prevalence and Cardiovascular Outcomes: Biology or bias?	Dr. Lorraine Lipscombe	April 16, 2008	59 minutes
Gender Differences in Rates of Total Joint Replacement Surgery: Bias or preferences?	Dr. Gillian Hawker	November 21, 2007	62 minutes
Bones...strong enough for a man? Truths and Myths about Male Osteoporosis	Dr. Sophie Jama	October 10, 2007	58 minutes
Gender, Sleep and Breathing: What Changes With Menopause?	Dr. Anu Tandon	September 12, 2007	61 minutes
Congestive Heart Failure	Dr. Nahid Azad	May 9, 2007	59 minutes
Contraception: It’s all about sex and gender	Dr. Sheila Dunn	April 11, 2007	62 minutes
Allergic Diseases - gender or no gender	Dr. Eric Leith	March 14, 2007	60 minutes
Migraine – Hildegard and Beyond: the relationship of headache to gender in a historical and physiological context.	Dr. Marek Gawel	February 14, 2007	55 minutes
Can Women Solve the “Manpower” Crisis in Rheumatology?	Dr. Dana Jerome	January 10, 2007	63 minutes
Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget	Dr. Gillian Einstein	December 13, 2006	56 minutes
Gender Differences in Sleep...More to Sleep on	Dr. Magdie Kohn	November 8, 2006	56 minutes
COPD: You’ve come a long way	Dr. Libby Groff	October 11, 2006	COPD rounds

After watching the rounds think about ways you could have Gender Lens Rounds as a part of the educational programme at your site.

Suggestions:

use the gender lens tool
think of an area of medicine where you think there might be gender differences, use the gender lens tool and present your findings to your colleagues
your area inquiry can can be focused or broad
think of questions and set out to answer them, identify next steps and share your findings
invite people who may not be aware of the power of the gender lens
think outside the box - be creative
have fun!

Send us your gender lens rounds and we’ll post the information here.

For more information about Gender Lens Rounds contact Dr. Anna Day (a.day@utoronto.ca).

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