LGBTQIA+ Health in Emergency Medicine Residency Curricula: A Pilot Needs Assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The quality of and access to care by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other sexual and gender diverse (LGBTQIA+) patients is often compromised by physician knowledge deficits, bias, and inadequate training in LGBTQIA+ health. Emergency medicine physicians must be prepared to care for LGBTQIA+ patients, but there is a lack of standardized training in LGBTQIA+ health across emergency medicine residencies. We sought to assess current practices and perform a needs assessment of LGBTQIA+ health teaching across a sample of emergency medicine residencies.

Methods

Residents from five geographically diverse emergency medicine residencies in the United States were invited to complete an online Qualtrics survey between April 2024 and June 20

SUBMITTER: Hsiang E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12517395 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature