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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Transgender Medicine Integrated Grand Rounds: Are Medical Students Receiving Enough Education to Competently Care for our Patients?

Rahimi-Saber, Anahita, Buda, Morgan, Schultz, Abby, Shelton, Maureen, Johnson, Leigh, Mann, Abbey K., Click, Ivy 05 April 2018 (has links)
Transgender individuals are defined as those whose gender does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Healthcare providers receive inadequate training in transgender medicine, which could lead to provider stigma and lower health outcomes and higher health disparities. The purpose of our study was to assess the effect of an educational intervention on first and second year ETSU medical students’ knowledge and attitudes regarding transgender healthcare. A transgender healthcare-centered Integrated Grand Rounds (IGR) was used as a setting to conduct a 9-item survey regarding definitions, medical management, and attitudes/comfort levels with transgender care. First and second year medical students (n=140) who participated in the intervention had the option to complete pre and post surveys on paper before and after IGR. Of the 140 participants, 138 (98.6%) completed the pretest and posttest measures. The participants’ attitudes about transgender patients and their comfort in treating transgender patients significantly improved between pre and posttest surveys (p

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