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"This Doctor Wants To Transform Transgender Care In America" - Abba Almendrala

  • The Huffington Post
  • NEW YORK, NY
  • (December 09, 2017)

Currently, medical schools devote only an average of five hours of their curriculum to teaching “LGBT-related content,” according to a 2009-2010 survey of deans representing 150 medical schools in North America. This is woefully inadequate to prepare doctors to see and treat approximately 1.4 million American adults who identify as transgender, and may explain why members of the medical community appear to have such a strained and fraught relationship with their transgender patients. The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai was one of the first to offer a year-long fellowship in transgender surgery. Zil Goldstein, MSN, assistant professor of medical education, program director of the Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery at the Mount Sinai Health System said, “As a medical care system, I always find it embarrassing that we have so few answers for transgender patients. There is not enough people who are offering transgender related surgery, and there is not enough places to learn.”

- Zil Goldstein, MSN, Assistant Professor, Medical Education, Program Director, The Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, The Mount Sinai Health System

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