Female Medical Students Underestimate Their Abilities And Males Tend To Overestimate Theirs
Despite performing equally to their male peers in the classroom and the clinic, female medical students consistently report decreased self-confidence and increased anxiety, particularly over issues related to their competency.
A new study published in the September 2008 issue of Patient Education and Counseling found that female medical students also appeared less confident to patients.
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Neither this summary nor the original article points out that physicians need to have optimal self-confidence-not too little and not too much. The women medical students are suffering, but what makes for a better doctor?