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Diversity Equity, and Inclusion

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As an openly queer educator and scientist, ensuring that everyone has equal access and equal opportunity to education is an important part of my work as an educator and researcher. It is a continuing experience and I am always looking to learn more.

Sexual Minority Identity in First-Year Medical Students

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In 2018 and 2019, I completed a qualitative study examining how our sexual minority first-year medical students navigated our medical curriculum. The results of that study are presented in the poster below. I hope to in the near future, complete this study at a multi-institutional level. If you are interested in having your institution join, contact me here.

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Based off these results, I worked with first-year instructors to a) inform them of the unique challenges this student population faces and how they can help and b) help create authentic curricular interventions to reveal unique LGBTQA+ health issues. This endeavor lead to the creation of my Handout for Medical Educators (see below or on the Resources Page) This past Spring I was lucky to spend a few hours discussing LGBTQA+ health disparities and my own experience with the health care system.

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