Camille A Clare, Mark B Woodland, Samantha Buery-Joyner, Sara Whetstone, Dotun Ogunyemi, Shireen Madani Sims, Michael Moxley, Laura E Baecher-Lind, B Star Hampton, Archana Pradhan, Nadine T Katz
A commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in medical education requires addressing both explicit and implicit biases based on sexual orientation, gender identity and expression and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) and the intersectionality with other identities. Heterosexism and heteronormative attitudes contribute to health and health care disparities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer/questioning, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA) individuals. Student, trainee, and faculty competencies in medical education curricula regarding the care of LGBTQIA patients and those who are gender nonconforming or born with differences of sex development allow for better understanding and belonging within the clinical learning environment of LGBTQIA learners and educators...
March 1, 2024: American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology