Transgender Health Medical Education Intervention and its Effects on Beliefs, Attitudes, Comfort, and Knowledge

Cherabie, Joseph; Nilsen, Kari; Houssayni, Sarah

doi:10.17161/kjm.v11i4.8707

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“…A single educational intervention's outcomes were published, detailing a 1-hour didactic lecture for emergency department providers, including advanced practitioners. 19 Notably, this intervention was led by members of the transgender community. An immediate post-intervention survey of subjects noted that providers were more likely to (1) have increased consideration for transgender patients (49%), (2) increase screening for gender dysphoria among their patient base (22%), (3) continue their education around transgender medicine topics (16%), and (4) provide more treatment options for transgender patients (13%).…”

Section: Web-based Continuing Medical Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Current State of Transgender Medical Education in the United States and Canada: Update to a Scoping Review

Nolan

Blasdel

Dubin

et al. 2020

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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Background: The published literature on education about transgender health within health professions curricula was previously found to be sporadic and fragmented. Recently, more inclusive and holistic approaches have been adopted. We summarize advances in transgender health education. Methods: A 5-stage scoping review framework was followed, including a literature search for articles relevant to transgender health care interventions in 5 databases (Education Source, LGBT Source, MedEd Portal, PsycInfo, PubMed) from January 2017 to September 2019. Search results were screened to include original articles reporting outcomes of educational interventions with a transgender health component that included MD/DO students in the United States and Canada. A gray literature search identified continuing medical education (CME) courses from 12 health professional associations with significant transgender-related content. Results: Our literature search identified 966 unique publications published in the 2 years since our prior review, of which 10 met inclusion criteria. Novel educational formats included interdisciplinary interventions, post-residency training including CME courses, and online web modules, all of which were effective in improving competencies related to transgender health care. Gray literature search resulted 15 CME courses with learning objectives appropriate to the 7 professional organizations who published them. Conclusions: Current transgender health curricula include an expanding variety of educational intervention formats driven by their respective educational context, learning objectives, and placement in the health professional curriculum. Notable limitations include paucity of objective educational intervention outcomes measurements, absence of long-term follow-up data, and varied nature of intervention types. A clear best practice for transgender curricular development has not yet been identified in the literature.

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Section: Web-based Continuing Medical Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Current State of Transgender Medical Education in the United States and Canada: Update to a Scoping Review

Nolan

Blasdel

Dubin

et al. 2020

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

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“…As far as the authors are aware of there are no reports from India on this aspect. However recent reports have indicated that teaching program on LGBT health issues have been effective in significantly bringing about positive change in attitude, comfort level, and knowledge on LGBT health issues [20][21][22]. The most important observation of this pilot study was that the graduates who had studied bioethics had empathy clearly indicate the usefulness of teaching bioethics in the undergraduate curriculum and needs to be supported.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 78%

Impact of Bioethics Education on Attitude and Beliefs regarding Homosexuality: A Pilot Study with Medical Graduates

Baliga¹,

Palaty²,

Punnapurath³

et al. 2019

Global Bioethics Enquiry Journal

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In a traditional country like India, homosexuality is still a taboo in most societies. The homophobic attitude of medical professionals is known to affect the quality of care for homosexual patients. The present study was conducted to ascertain the opinion of medical graduates on various aspects of homosexuality. A conscious attempt was made to know the opinion of medical graduates who studied bioethics through a structured module with those who did not study. The results indicated that graduates who had studied bioethics had a better judicious decision than their counterparts who had not learnt ethics in their undergraduate curriculum. The results of this study support the belief that teaching bioethics through structured teaching modules in undergraduate curriculum has benefit in inculcating the desired values.

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“…Third, while other evaluation tools determined a transphobia scale divided into domains such as knowledge, transphobia content, attitudes, belief, and so on, 13,32,34 this study evaluated only attitude and their change between before and after lecture using the GTS and ATTIS combined, indicating a lower value on the GTS and a higher value on ATTIS.…”

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confidence: 99%

Attitudes Toward Transgender People Among Medical Students in South Korea

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Introduction Interventions aimed at changing knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs of resident physicians and medical students have been made to incite a significant positive increase in attitudes, comfort, and knowledge toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, as well as increased levels of competency among participants. Aim To use insights from the attitudes of medical students toward transgender people and demonstrate that adding lectures on transgenderism would make the medical school curricula more comprehensive and trans-inclusive by improving overall attitudes toward the LGBT community. Methods A total of 49 medical students completed the preintervention survey with the Genderism and Transphobia Scale and Attitudes Toward Transgendered Individuals Scale, and then took a class on transgenderism, whereas 39 individuals completed the 4-week postintervention survey following the same measures. Main Outcome Measure Three items of survey were demographic characteristics, the Genderism and Transphobia Scale, and the Attitude Toward Transgender Individuals Scale. Results Although there was no significant difference in mean score between the preintervention and postintervention surveys, those who had minority individuals as peers and those who had previous LGBT-related education showed significantly positive attitudes than those without after the lecture. As a result of analyzing all the data from the pre/postintervention surveys, being of the female gender and having minority individuals as peers positively affected attitude. Conclusion Although there was no significant attitude change after the lecture, those who had previous LGBT-related education showed significantly positive attitudes at pre/postintervention surveys than those without. These findings suggest that raising awareness and education should be continued for a positive attitude toward more vulnerable groups such as the LGBT. Given the lack of studies on transgenderism that involve students in the medical profession in South Korea, this study shows the necessity of curricula creation of transgenderism education. This study aims to serve as a basis for curricula creation and student guidance that will help creating more positive attitudes toward sexual and gender minorities.

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Transgender Health Medical Education Intervention and its Effects on Beliefs, Attitudes, Comfort, and Knowledge

Cited by 29 publications

References 9 publications

Current State of Transgender Medical Education in the United States and Canada: Update to a Scoping Review

Current State of Transgender Medical Education in the United States and Canada: Update to a Scoping Review

Impact of Bioethics Education on Attitude and Beliefs regarding Homosexuality: A Pilot Study with Medical Graduates

Attitudes Toward Transgender People Among Medical Students in South Korea

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