AUTHOR=Moretti Chiara , De Luca Enrico , D’Apice Clelia , Artioli Giovanna , Sarli Leopoldo , Bonacaro Antonio 

TITLE=Gender and sex bias in prevention and clinical treatment of women’s chronic pain: hypotheses of a curriculum development

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Medicine

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2023.1189126

DOI=10.3389/fmed.2023.1189126

ISSN=2296-858X

ABSTRACT=This manuscript focuses on the role that undergraduate medical education may play in tackling gender bias in medical practice with reference to preventing and managing chronic pain in women in a non-biomedical perspective. The paper proposes an innovative curriculum development approach to be implemented throughout all years of study in medical programs. This novel strategy could be used to cross-contaminate all other healthcare practitioners’ university programs and to stimulate an interprofessional debate aiming at fostering inclusiveness and equality of opportunities in medicine and allied health sciences.