Developing health care provider knowledge, confidence, and cultural sensitivity through resident transgender training: a controlled educational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals face substantial health disparities as a result of discrimination and poor provider competence in understanding their health needs. Relatively little work has been done studying educational interventions targeted toward increasing residents' knowledge and ability to treat TGD individuals with sensitivity. We studied the effectiveness of implementing a lecture series on transgender health in preparing internal medicine residents to care for the TGD population.

Methods

Both study and control participants were recruited through their affiliated internal medicine residency programs. The study design was a pre-post controlled educational study. A lecture series was developed at Riverside University Health System as the e

SUBMITTER: Huang K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12247190 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature