This comprehensive course is designed to enhance healthcare providers’ ability to support 2S/LGBTQIA+ community members effectively. Through three detailed modules, participants will gain insights into the historical and current challenges faced by 2S/LGBTQIA+ individuals in mental health care, understand the evolution of gender and sexuality classifications, and learn best practices for providing gender-affirming care. Each module is structured to accommodate flexible learning, allowing you to complete sections at your own pace. Join us in fostering a more inclusive and compassionate healthcare environment.
Overall Learning Objectives
This program will provide participants with knowledge and skills so that they can:
- Identify inequities experienced by 2SLGBTQIA+ communities accessing emergency medicine care
- Recognize existing healthcare disparities for 2SLGBTQIA+ populations
- Describe concepts and terminology that relate to the 2SLGBTQIA+ community
- Explain how stigmatization, intersectionality and discrimination have led to the health disparities experienced by 2SLGBTQIA+ people
- Describe strategies that enhance their own capacity to provide affirming and inclusive care to 2SLGBTQIA+ patients and apply them in daily medical practice
- Describe the evolution of how gender and sexuality have been classified in the DSM from DSM-I through DSM-5, and analyze the implications of these classifications on healthcare practices.
- Identify and differentiate between different types of biases (e.g., affinity bias, confirmation bias, status quo bias) as they manifest in healthcare settings, particularly in emergency care for 2S/LGBTQIA+ patients.
- Reflect on their own biases and recognize how these biases may influence interactions with 2S/LGBTQIA+ patients in emergency care settings.
- Understand 2S/LGBTQIA+ health disparities and drivers, and how to address them.
- Describe best practices for providing gender-affirming care to transgender and non-binary patients in emergency room settings, including considerations for hormone therapy and psychological support.
- Identify three types of gender affirming transition.
- Recognize common barriers to effective emergency care for transgender, non-binary and gender expansive patients and have a better idea of how you can improve medical experiences for 2S/LGBTQIA+ patients.
- Explain a surgical assessment and how to prescribe hormone therapies.
- Reflect on how bias can impact patient care and what strategies you can employ to combat its impacts.
Module 1: 2S/LGBTQIA+ Competencies in Emergency Medicine – Highlights & Learning Objectives
This course was designed to equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to proactively support 2S/LGBTQIA+ community members. As healthcare providers, this course will strengthen your capacity to care for patients from equity-denied populations, particularly in relation to mental health. This course will break down the complicated history of 2S/LGBTQIA+ people’s treatment in the field of mental health care, highlight important considerations around gender and sexuality, and provide tools to help you move forward in your own practice.
This module will take roughly 60 minutes to complete, and learners are encouraged to take breaks as needed. This module can be completed over multiple sittings. Your completed sections will be saved by the system and will be available to you when you log back in.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
Describe the evolution of how gender and sexuality have been classified in the DSM from DSM-I through DSM-5, and analyze the implications of these classifications on healthcare practices.
Identify and differentiate between different types of biases (e.g., affinity bias, confirmation bias, status quo bias) as they manifest in healthcare settings, particularly in emergency care for 2S/LGBTQIA+ patients.
Reflect on their own biases and recognize how these biases may influence interactions with 2S/LGBTQIA+ patients in emergency care settings.
Understand 2S/LGBTQIA+ health disparities and drivers, and how to address them.
Describe best practices for providing gender-affirming care to transgender and non-binary patients in emergency room settings, including considerations for hormone therapy and psychological support.
Module 2: 2S/LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Mental Health for Emergency Medicine – Highlights & Learning Objectives
This course was designed to equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to proactively support 2S/LGBTQIA+ community members. As healthcare providers, this course will strengthen your capacity to care for patients from equity-denied populations, particularly in relation to mental health. This course will break down the complicated history of 2S/LGBTQIA+ people’s treatment in the field of mental health care, highlight important considerations around gender and sexuality, and provide tools to help you move forward in your own practice.
This module will take roughly 60 minutes to complete, and learners are encouraged to take breaks as needed. This module can be completed over multiple sittings. Your completed sections will be saved by the system and will be available to you when you log back in.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
Describe the evolution of how gender and sexuality have been classified in the DSM from DSM-I through DSM-5, and analyze the implications of these classifications on healthcare practices.
Identify and differentiate between different types of biases (e.g., affinity bias, confirmation bias, status quo bias) as they manifest in healthcare settings, particularly in emergency care for 2S/LGBTQIA+ patients.
Reflect on their own biases and recognize how these biases may influence interactions with 2S/LGBTQIA+ patients in emergency care settings.
Understand 2S/LGBTQIA+ health disparities and drivers, and how to address them.
Describe best practices for providing gender-affirming care to transgender and non-binary patients in emergency room settings, including considerations for hormone therapy and psychological support.
Module 3: Emergency Department Care for Transgender Non Binary and Gender Expansive Patients – Highlights & Learning Objectives
Welcome to Emergency Department Care for Transgender, Non-Binary and Gender Expansive Patients, a learning module developed by CBRC in partnership with the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP).
This module explores ways to improve transgender, non-binary and gender expansive healthcare, overviewing the problematic history impacting how we provide care for these communities, and how patients’ past experiences can change how they perceive and experience medical services.
This module will take roughly 90 minutes to complete, and learners are encouraged to take breaks as needed. This module can be completed over multiple sittings. Your completed sections will be saved by the system and should be available to you when you log back in.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
Identify three types of gender affirming transition.
Recognize common barriers to effective emergency care for transgender, non-binary and gender expansive patients and have a better idea of how you can improve medical experiences for 2S/LGBTQIA+ patients.
Explain a surgical assessment and how to prescribe hormone therapies.
Reflect on how bias can impact patient care and what strategies you can employ to combat its impacts.
Credits
CFPC
This activity has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada for up to 3.5 Mainpro+ Certified Assessment Activity credits.
RCPSC
This activity is an Accredited Self-Assessment Program (Section 3) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by CAEP. You may claim a maximum of 3.5 hours (credits are automatically calculated).
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Committee
For more information about the CAEP Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Committee, please visit our webpage.