Table 1. Guiding AAMC LGBT/GNC/DSD Competencies and Anticipated M1 Educational Milestones for the Interprofessional LGBT Health Equity Session.
Competency Domain | LGBT/GNC/DSD Specifier | M1 Educational Milestones |
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Professionalism | E3: accepting shared responsibility for eliminating disparities and overt bias (e.g., discrimination), and developing policies and procedures that respect all patients’ rights to self-determination. | • Identify health and health care disparities in LGBT populations. • Recognize how patients’ gender, sexual orientation, and other aspects of diversity may impact professional relationships and patient care. |
Systems-Based Practice | F3: identifying and partnering with community resources that provide support to the individuals described above (e.g., treatment lefts, care providers, community activists, support groups, legal advocates) to help eliminate bias from health care and address community needs. | • Identify community providers, resources, and agencies that support LGBT patients. • Recognize bias (implicit/explicit) toward LGBT patients that exists within the health care system. |
Interprofessional Collaboration | G: valuing the importance of interprofessional communication and collaboration in providing culturally competent, patient-lefted care to the individuals described above and participating effectively as a member of an interdisciplinary health care team. | • Demonstrate awareness of the roles and responsibilities of physicians and other care providers in patient care. • Communicate with and contribute to an interprofessional learning group on shared responsibility for culturally competent, patient-lefted LGBT patient care. |
Abbreviations: DSD, differences in sexual development; GNC, gender-nonconforming; LGBT, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender; M1, first-year medical student.