Bookedited for the AAMC by Andrew D. Hollenbach, Kristen L. Eckstrand, Alice Dreger.
Summary: People who are LGBT, gender nonconforming, or born with DSD often experience challenges when seeking care in doctors' offices, community clinics, hospitals, and emergency rooms. These experiences, which can range from being made to feel unwelcome to outright discrimination and mistreatment, lead to poorer physical and emotional health. The report identifies 30 competencies that physicians must master. These competencies fall under eight domains of care critical to training physicians, including patient care, knowledge for practice, practice-based learning and improvement, interpersonal and communication skills, professionalism, systems-based practice, interprofessional collaboration, and personal and professional development. This competency-based framework will allow medical educators to integrate the new guidelines into existing curricula more easily and encourage faculty and health care professionals to move away from thinking of patients in these groups as separate from the general patient population.
Contents:
Chapter 1: Laying the foundation for inclusion and equality
Chapter 2: The role of medical education and health care professionals in eliminating health disparities
Chapter 3: Professional competency objectives to improve health care for people who are or may be LGBT, gender nonconforming, and/or born with DSD
Chapter 4: Integrating competencies into medical school curricula to improve health care for people who are or may be LGBT, gender nonconforming, and/or born with DSD
Chapter 5: Clinical scenarios and discussion points for experiential learning
Chapter 6: How to assess learners and evaluate the impact of curricular and climate initiatives
Chapter 7: Using AAMC's MedEdPORTAL® to advance curricular change
Chapter 8: Future directions.