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Women undergraduates outweigh men

Editor-Increasing numbers of female medical students is a visible phenomenon, even in Pakistani medical schools.¹ For the past decade, the ratio has almost reversed from male dominance to female preponderance. This could partly be due to better college performance of women before joining medical schools. Female students consistently take all the top positions in the local examinations before joining medical school.

Increasing awareness in Pakistan towards educating women is also a factor that needs to be kept in mind. Also, female doctors act as an added source of income in the family and help support their husbands.

Female doctors mostly used to opt for the field of obstetrics and gynaecology. The reason for this is that our female population is more comfortable visiting a female gynaecologist. But for the past half decade this trend is also seeing a change. More and more female doctors are taking up different and versatile fields.

Abdul Moiz Khan, final year medical student, Aga Khan University Medical School, Karachi, Pakistan
Email: moiz2005@yahoo.com

studentBMJ 2005;13:265-308 July ISSN 0966-6494

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LETTERS Women undergraduates outweigh men Abdul Moiz Khan,(July 2005)	Taiyyab Mehmood (August 23rd, 2005) Read this response

	LETTERS Women undergraduates outweigh men Abdul Moiz Khan,(July 2005)
	Taiyyab Mehmood (August 23rd, 2005) Medical Student/Medicine/3rd year, England/Latvia mrt1066@yahoo.com
	I totally welcome women going into education and those choosing medicine is admirable. I am concerned that males are not choosing it as the lenght of training, mediocre salary, the long career path and competion before becomine a consutlant and other cumbersome obstacles shies them away to other field like law, IT, accountacny, MBA etc. i am aware before 1905 medicine and surgery were 2 different displines in uk. i belief we should revert back to this instead of me as a phsycain to waste time learning about suergery and a srugeon to learn about meidicne. this way we may cut the lengt of e medial degree from to 4 years. also we need to do like USA where after medical/surgical degree we go straight into residency and not dilly dally in house jobs we hate and will nos speialise at all. its a damn waste of time. The world is moving fast yet medidine is still at victorian snail pace...no more 5 day cricket matches we ahve time to see let alone a one day cricket match. we need to radicalise the whole medical and surgical training system. And i dont agree with the old toffs surgeons who say the new eureopan working training directive will be bad to train new surgeons. in usa they hve world leading sureons who trained in half the time than the old toffs in uk. thats as they used theri time quality by going in the deep end than learning waste of theoricaly stuff as a senior nuse in the operating thethre as they do in uk. peace to you all!! :)