Physician gender has stimulated a good deal of interest as a possible source of variation in
the interpersonal aspects of medical practice, with speculation that female physicians are
more patient-centered in their communication with patients. Our objective is to synthesize
the results of two meta-analytic reviews the effects of physician gender on communication in
medical visits within a communication framework that reflects patient-centeredness and the
functions of the medical visit. We performed online database searches of English-language …