Medical Students Push For More LGBT Health Training To Address Disparities [npr.org]

Alicia Doktor 1/22/198:20 AM

When Sarah Spiegel was in her first year at New York Medical College in 2016, she sat in a lecture hall watching a BuzzFeed video about what it's like to be an intersex or a transgender person.

"It was a good video, but it felt inadequate for the education of a class of medical students, soon to be doctors," says Spiegel, now in her third year of medical school.

The video, paired with a 30-minute lecture on sexual orientation, was the only LGBT-focused information Spiegel and her fellow classmates received in their foundational course.

[For more on this story by RACHEL COHEN, go to https://www.npr.org/sections/h...-address-disparities]

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