Diversity and Inclusion

Culturally Competent Care: LGBT

Description:  What best practices and training enable health-care professionals to understand the needs of LGBT patients, especially transgender patients. Experts from Beth Israel Medical Center/ Mount Sinai Health System and the Center for American Progress shared solutions at DiversityInc's event. (50 min.)

Reexamining LGBT Healthcare 

Description: An excerpt from the 10-minute video, "To Treat Me, You Have to Know Who I Am", created by the National LGBT Cancer Network, as part of a cultural competence curriculum for healthcare providers and staff. For more information, go to www.cancer-network.or or write info@cancer-network.org

https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/diversity/449506/integratingcontent.html

Video Length: 22 minutes

Description: In this video, Andrew Hollenbach, Ph.D. interviews three leaders in the academic medicine community on how to best include LGBT and DSD content into the medical school curricula. The panelists discuss how internal and external factors can influence faculty and students success in incorporating LGBT and DSD content; tips and effective strategies for including and developing this content; how to handle the systematic barriers that may be encountered when attempting to include this content; how to maintain momentum when leading these efforts; and evidence-based teaching methods to aid in optimal learning.

Videos representing stories exploring sexual and gender diversity, and experiences of cancer health, support and care.  

One example video is available below.  Additional videos are available at the Cancer's Margins web site.

The Cancer’s Margins research team uses a community-and-arts based approach to exploring sexual and gender diversity, and experiences of cancer health, support and care. We look at how LGBT2Q people locate and share knowledge after they’ve been diagnosed and treated for breast or gynecologic cancer.

RESISTERECTOMY by Chase Joynt

Description:  “Resisterectomy” juxtaposes the narrative of trans sex reassignment surgeries with the narrative of cancer surgeries – mastectomy and hysterectomy – the same surgeries, organized in relation to very different modes of telling, showing and embodiment.

Made in collaboration with Dr. M. K. Bryson
http://chasejoynt.com/

A Day in Our Shoes - Homeless LGBT Youth

Description:  There are an estimated 3,800 homeless youth in New York City. About 1,500 of them identity as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. Government funding provides fewer than 200 shelter beds for all homeless children in the city.