There would also be involvement of LGBTQI+ community members in teaching the medical students. There would be clinical opportunities to engage with a high volume of LGBTQI+ patients. KEUROGHLIAN: From the time medical students arrive in their first year in every course that they take, wherever there's an opportunity or need to frame medical education in a way that's inclusive of the needs of all sexual and gender-diverse people, that would be happening. PARKS: Tell me what - in a perfect world academically, what this would look like. So there's a lot of variability across the country. And there's also variation across coursework, the core clinical clerkships where people rotate through, say, surgery and internal medicine and pediatrics and psychiatry and OB-GYN and then advanced courses. Certain medical schools have really picked up that call, and other schools have done less. KEUROGHLIAN: There has been some improvement. Has there been an improvement over the last 10 years? and Canadian medical schools essentially they need to provide better training for LGBTQ people. PARKS: So in 2014, the Association of American Medical Colleges released a call that said to U.S. Alex, welcome.ĪLEX KEUROGHLIAN: Thank you for having me.
They're a psychiatrist and director of the Division of Education and Training at the Fenway Institute. To understand better what it is that medical students and patients need, we turn to Dr. They also say that medical students are lagging behind in getting the training they need to care for the LGBTQ community. But at the heart of it, there are thousands of people who health care advocates say are not getting the care they need.
Medical care for the LGBTQ community has become politicized in this country.
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