Gender concordance between family practice residents and their patients in an ambulatory-care setting

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To determine whether women residents are more likely than men residents to treat female patients , the author analyzed data concerning resident-patient encounters in an ambulatory care setting from 107 family practice residents completing a university training program from 1979 through 1988 . While the mean numbers of encounters for the men and women residents were similar , 70 . 5 % of the women residents ' encounters were with female patients , compared with 63 . 1 % of men residents ' encounters with female patients ( p less than . 0001 ). The women residents saw 3 . 6 times more female than male patients aged 13 to 20 years and 3 . 9 times more women than men patients aged 21 to 40 . The women residents had more encounters for contraception , vaginitis , prenatal care , and health maintenance for women patients and fewer encounters for prostatic / testicular problems and health maintenance for men patients .

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