"Emergency Doc Training Important To Improving Transgender Care"
The negative experiences of transgender and gender nonconforming patients in U.S. emergency departments could be avoided with better training for doctors, suggests a new study. "The biggest recommendation that came out from what we saw and what participants actually said was training," said the study's lead author Makini Chisolm-Straker, MD, MPH, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Training of medical staff "should be systematic and it should be required." Two themes that emerged from the surveys were self-efficacy, which focused on the person's need to speak up for themselves, and power inequity, which dealt with the dynamic between patient and provider. Learn more.