@article {Schexneider:2010:0026-4075:21,
	author = "Schexneider, Katherine",
	title = "Stethoscopes and Headscarves: Female Medical Students in Present-Day Afghanistan",
	journal = "Military Medicine",
	volume = "175",
	number = "1",
	year = "2010",
	abstract = "<B>ABSTRACT</B><P></P>Background: This descriptive study reviews the experiences and challenges of female medical students in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era, addressing issues specific to them as women and also in the wider context of the practice of medicine as it currently exists in this country. Method: Six female students were observed on in-patient internal medicine clerkships at the National Military Hospital (NMH) in Kabul, Afghanistan. The women also participated in a structured interview used to outline their values and perceptions as females in new roles and an evolving culture. Results: Responding to the structured interview questions, the women called attention to gender-neutral issues and readily identified gender discrimination, but did not embrace uniquely feminine traits in themselves nor view themselves as <I>women</I> physicians to any appreciable degree. Conclusions: Although women are now attending medical school and practicing medicine again, their integration into Afghan culture as physicians remains at the developmental stage.",
	pages = "21-24",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/amsus/zmm/2010/00000175/00000001/art00020"
}