Status: APPROVED                          DDMC Approval Date: November 2, 2023

Business Definition

Gender is the description that a student selects to describe their innate sense of their gender.

Valid Values

SMPH respects how the student identifies and uses the specific descriptions selected/provided by the student in our student information system, Acuity (One45), where students view their personal information. These values are:

Agender

Another Gender Identity (Specify)

Genderqueer/Gender non-conforming

Man

Multiple (Concatenated)

Non-binary

Trans man

Trans woman

Woman

Unknown (Declined to answer)

Data “Sources of Truth”

MD Students: AMCAS application

Other Information

For reporting, it is desirable to group these descriptions into fewer categories for analytics and necessary to meet other entities’ requirements. The chart below shows the approved grouping methodologies for Gender.

File Location

https://uwprod.sharepoint.com/sites/SMPH-AADataDomainMgmtCouncil/Shared%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?id=%2Fsites%2FSMPH%2DAADataDomainMgmtCouncil%2FShared%20Documents%2FData%20Definitions%2FProposed&viewid=d8711812%2Dec79%2D4cf3%2D9af6%2D94805dca52c9