People commonly experience sexual side-effects as a consequence of cancer diagnosis and treatment; this article explores these in men and people born with male reproductive organs.
Nurses can for the first time become members of the Institute of Psychosexual Medicine, after the organisation voted to accept health professionals other than doctors.
Since 2015, nurses and allied health professionals have been allowed to sit the IPM’s first-level diploma exam but they were not eligible to become members.
“This is a milestone in the history of the IPM and one we are rightly proud of”
Sheila Radhakrishnan
The IPM’s membership has now voted to change the organisation’s constitution to allow nurses and allied health professionals to sit the next-level membership exam.
The institute is a registered charity that was founded in 1974 to provide training in psychosexual medicine for qualified medical practitioners.