Assessment of Internal Medicine Resident Preparedness to Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recognizing the unique health needs of sexual and gender minorities (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning individuals) is critical to providing competent and comprehensive healthcare.

Objective

To assess resident knowledge of healthcare issues uniquely affecting sexual and gender minorities as well as the role of online case-based didactics to measure and improve knowledge in the diagnosis and treatment of these patients.

Design

A multicenter online education intervention from December 2016 to April 2018.

Participants

The study population consisted of 833 PGY1-3 residents at 120 internal medicine residency programs in the USA who completed 1018 tests.

Interventions

A 1-h online module addressing sexual and gender minori

SUBMITTER: Streed CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6544682 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature