RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Sexism in a UK-wide medical examination JF Clinical Medicine JO Clin Med FD Royal College of Physicians SP 584 OP 585 DO 10.7861/clinmed.2022-0360 VO 22 IS 6 A1 Sarah E Fox A1 Ben Paxton YR 2022 UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/22/6/584.abstract AB Gender bias and sexism in the health profession in the UK has been highlighted as a major problem. Efforts to reduce this must include medical training and examinations. The Situational Judgment Test (SJT) is an examination that must be passed to work as a foundation doctor in the UK; and is taken by all UK medical students. We analysed gender balance in all 215 scenarios included in the official practice papers for the SJT. We found that senior doctors were more than twice as likely to be men than women, while there was no significant gender difference in representation of foundation year-1 doctors, other health professionals or patients/relatives. This inequality has the potential to reinforce gender biases in healthcare. Medical examinations can, instead, represent an opportunity for prejudices to be challenged.