Patient voices and student insights into LGBTQ+ healthcare: a call for equitable healthcare through medical education.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual and gender diverse (LGBTQ+) individuals have health needs specific to their identities. However, they face discrimination and cis-heteronormativity in most patient-provider interactions, which often translate into poor healthcare. Evidence suggests doctors are inadequately trained to care for LGBTQ+ patients. Medical students are well-placed as the future workforce to establish affirming behaviours. This study garners LGBTQ+ patients' healthcare experiences, where limited qualitative evidence exists, and explores whether students have insight into these experiences.

Method

Thirty LGBTQ+ patients and twenty students, evenly divided between Singapore and the United Kingdom (UK), two legally and culturally dif

SUBMITTER: Fu MX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11409410 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature