Gender Affirming Care
Activity
Standardized Patients
Standardized Patients
For this Standardized Practice Session, students will encounter 2 Standardized Patient scenarios focused on Gender Affirming Care: (1) Coming Out Anxiety; and (2) Hormone Replacement Therapy for a patient over 40 years old. Students are paired with one preceptor over the 2.5-hour standardized practice session, with SPs rotating at the half-way point of the session.
Curriculum Block
Integration Foundation / Part 5
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Activity Objectives
- To apply a Trauma-Informed Care approach as a medical student participating in direct patient care, with a focus on following the five guiding principles of trauma-informed care (safety, choice, collaboration, trustworthiness, and empowerment).
- To explain our positionality as individual healthcare providers and its bidirectional impacts on clinical assessments.
- To practice an inclusive gender-affirming history of gender and sexual identity.
- To discuss core aspects of gender-affirming care for trans and non-binary patients, and review differences between gender identity, gender expression, sex and sexual orientation.
Tags
AFMC Entrustable Professional Activities
1. Obtain a history and perform a physical examination adapted to the patient’s clinical situation
Curriculum Block
Integration Foundation
Part 5
Curriculum Week
IF
MCC Presentations
Gender and Sexuality
McMaster Professional Competency
Clinical Skills
McMaster Program Competencies
1.1 Gather essential and accurate information about patients and their health through history-taking, physical examination, and the use of laboratory data, imaging, and other tests.
MeSH
Clinical Competence [I02.399.630.210]
Gender Identity [F01.393.446.250]
Gender Identity [F01.752.747.722.200]
Gender-Affirming Care [N05.300.361]
Hormone Replacement Therapy [E02.319.452]
Medical History Taking [E01.370.510]
Transgender Persons [M01.270.988.750]
