Tales Out of Medical School.

SEX discrimination against women; WOMEN'S health; MEDICAL students; MEDICAL schools; HEALTH education

With the growth of the women's health movement and the influx of women into medical schools, there has been abundant talk of a new enlightenment among physicians. Frances Conley, a neurosurgeon on the faculty of Stanford University's medical school, resigned her position, citing pervasive sexism. At a time when women made up one-third of all medical students in the United States, and as many as one-half at some schools, class was 73 percent male and more than 90 percent white. But at Georgetown female students also had to contend with outright discrimination of a sort most Americans probably think no longer exists in education.