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Incorporating Sexual And Gender Minority Patient Care Competencies: A Case Based Curriculum For Caring For Gender Diverse Youth, Eileen Cichoskikelly, Suzanne Kingery, Susan Sawning
Incorporating Sexual And Gender Minority Patient Care Competencies: A Case Based Curriculum For Caring For Gender Diverse Youth, Eileen Cichoskikelly, Suzanne Kingery, Susan Sawning
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There is a gap in medical education training content specifically focused on the care of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) people and people with Differences in Sex Development (DSD). Inadequate training contributes to suboptimal health care access, utilization, and experiences among SGM-DSD people. Improving medical education training can be challenging as many clinician educators received sparse instruction themselves in these areas and there are limited teaching resources that expand beyond didactic instruction. In 2014 the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Advisory Committee on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Sex Development published a landmark document identifying 30 specifiers of competence …