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Record W2034807016 · doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7478.1324

Women in medicine: the changing pattern over the past 50 years

2004· article· en· W2034807016 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Vivian Edwards

Bibliographic record

VenueBMJ · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDiversity and Career in Medicine
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersHospital for Sick Children
KeywordsData scienceComputer scienceMedicineWorld Wide Web

Abstract

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The attitude to women in medicine has radically changed over the years. I qualified in the mid 1950s, having previously gained state registration in nursing. While a schoolgirl, I had seen so many sixth form girls being rejected for medical training, so I decided to take up nursing. After qualification, still dreaming about medicine, I sought an interview with matron to say that I had decided to apply for a place at medical school. Anger was expressed. She gave no support. Luckily I was offered an interview at a London teaching hospital. The candidates were mainly men. During my interview, the basic contents of matron's reference were revealed. They were damning. Eventually the dean asked where I would live during training. I replied that, for financial reasons, I would remain in my parent's suburb home; I was told that rail travel would limit the time I could spend on studying. I was questioned about my marital status, whether I was still unattached. I was …

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Incentives · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.998
Threshold uncertainty score0.042

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.006
Science and technology studies0.0020.002
Scholarly communication0.0020.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.303
Teacher spread0.275 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designObservational
DomainIncentives
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2004
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