ADVERTISEMENT Harvard Medical School is offering its students the opportunity to learn about how to provide healthcare to LGBTQIA+ “infants,” according to a university course catalog description.
The course “Caring for Patients with Diverse Sexual Orientations, Gender Identities, and Sex Development” will teach aspiring medical professionals about how to provide “culturally responsive care” to patients who “identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex or asexual,” as reported in The College Fix . The course description describes how “Clinical exposure and education will focus on serving gender and sexual minority people across the lifespan, from infants to older adults.”
Students will also be given the opportunity to “engage in a mentored scholarly endeavor” that may consist of “advocacy, quality improvement, medical education, original research, or public health project.”
While Massachusetts General Hospital will serve as the primary meeting location for the academic year, the elective offers “partnerships and clinical experiences” at a […]
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