Table 2: Number of course participants in the third and fourth semester (Sem.) of the model degree program of medicine at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. In all four pilot semesters (summer semester 2017 – winter semester 2018) the share of female students was about 60% of the students cohort. In the third semester, 1 in 40 to 1 in 26 female students attended the alternative course. In the fourth semester, 1 in 40 to 1 in 16 female students attended the alternative course. Before the introduction of the alternative courses, students had to wait until after their pregnancy or the breastfeeding period (up to four semesters and more) to attend the dissection courses. Following the introduction of the new alternative courses, in the first two pilot semesters these students attended the courses alongside the pregnant and breastfeeding students attending there respective semester. Over the course of the winter semester 2017 another five students in the fourth semester became pregnant and transferred from the regular course to the alternative course.