What started out as a simple desire by Oneonta's Dr. Carolyn Wolf-Gould at the Gender Wellness Center, to better serve a population of people who are very underserved, those who are transgender, has turned into a model and nationally-known healthcare practice where transgender patients can receive the specialized care they need in a welcoming environment.
What started out as a simple desire by Oneonta's Dr. Carolyn Wolf-Gould at the Gender Wellness Center, to better serve a population of people who are very underserved, those who are transgender, has turned into a model and nationally-known healthcare practice where transgender patients can receive the specialized care they need in a welcoming environment.
What started out as a simple desire by Oneonta's Dr. Carolyn Wolf-Gould at the Gender Wellness Center, to better serve a population of people who are very underserved, those who are transgender, has turned into a model and nationally-known healthcare practice where transgender patients can receive the specialized care they need in a welcoming environment.
May 28, 2021
Training students to care for transgender and non-binary patients
A woman, who was assigned male at birth, is diagnosed with prostate cancer. This was a recent clinical training exercise from Yale’s Physician Assistant Online (PA Online) Program involving standardized patients who are transgender women. At Yale School of Medicine (YSM), MD, PA Online, and Physician Associate (PA) degree programs incorporate curricular content to train students to care for transgender and non-binary patients competently and compassionately. Importantly, the programs are committed to ongoing curricular assessment and revisions.
YSM began the process of meaningfully including such content into its MD curriculum in 2014, as part of a larger collaborative effort between students and faculty to evaluate and increase content related to sexual and gender minority (SGM) medicine. This involved carefully examining the curriculum to determine what was and was not being covered, based on nation