UQ's school of medicine is getting fewer women through the doors. Photo: Lawrence Dutrieux

The University of Queensland medical school may change its medical exam weighting for graduates after research showed it may be unnecessarily favouring men over women as future doctors.

Fairfax Media reported on Wednesday new research showing that since UQ removed interviews with potential students in 2009, the proportion of girls winning medicine places had slumped to 26 per cent by 2012.

Jennifer Schafer, director of the University of Queenslands School of Medicine, said the research by Professor David Wilkinson was commissioned by UQ to learn what impact the decision to scrap interviews had created.

I guess the numbers were a surprise to us, Dr Schafer said.

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We dropped the interview and the gender diversity changed a little bit.

But there are other variables that we think may have contributed to that.

Dr Schafer said UQs School of Medicine was now studying the research.

The 2012 results were very unexpected, she said.

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