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INNOVATION / ROUNDS
LECTURE SERIES. Roth
and her team host a series
of educational presentations
around culturally humble
care, which has included a
panel with LGBTQ patients
on their experiences in the
health care system.
GRAND ROUNDS. Monthly
rounds focusing on a variety
of topics around sexual and
gender minority care with
opportunities to earn CME
and CE credits.
CLINIC TRAINING. During
their adolescent medicine
rotation, pediatric residents
spend time in a communitybased
specialty
clinic
that
provides screening,
treatment and sexual health
care services. This gives residents
increased exposure to
the LGBTQ population and
provides awareness about
appropriate ways to address
different gender identities.
CHAM is also planning
to implement preferred
gender pronouns on medical
residents' ID badges. The
message to LGBTQ youth
from these initiatives is
meant to be one of acceptance.
" To facilitate young
people opening up to us
and being responsive to our
questions, we have to signal
to them that this is not only
a safe environment, but we
are open to hearing about
their experiences and who
they are, " says Neal Hoffman,
M.D., adolescent medicine
specialist at CHAM.
UNIFORM CURRICULUM
As co-chair of the LGBTQ
Health and Wel l-Being
Special Interest Group of
the Academic Pediatric
Association, Roth is working
on a nationwide pediatric
LGBTQ curriculum and
competencies for medical
students and residents on
providing gender-affirming
care. She says this is essential
to establish universal
guidelines across pediatric
medicine and to provide consistency
for physicians who
may continue their health
care careers in other regions
around the country. " It's
important for it to be uniform
because there is a lot of
misinformation out there, "
she says. " Patients and parents
must not get conflicting
information from different
providers. Every patient
might take a different path,
but there are guidelines out
there-and we want to disseminate
that information
much as we can. "
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