Evaluation of curricular relevance and actual integration of sex/gender and cultural competencies by final year medical students: effects of student diversity subgroups and curriculum.

Diversity issues play a key role in medical practice and have recently been more explicitly integrated into undergraduate medical curricula in Europe and worldwide. However, research on students´ perspectives on the relevance and curricular integration of diversity issues, such as sex/gender and culture-sensitive competencies, is still limited. The Charité Berlin (Germany) ran in parallel a traditional and a competency-based medical program.