The Medical Training Gap Putting Women's Health at Risk

Across family medicine, internal medicine, and OB-GYN, fewer than 7% of residents say they feel prepared to manage menopause. And even in OB-GYN, the one specialty whose entire job is women’s bodies, only 31% of residency programs have any menopause curriculum at all. These are the people who will care for you for the next 30 years of your life. Almost none of them were trained for the thing half the population goes through. We built a system of women’s healthcare that mostly stops paying attention the moment reproduction ends. Almost half your life happ… Video by YouTube channel.