Students play the role of transgender people in medical appointments to “make medical practices safer.”
This month, the University of Connecticut Medical School will teach students in providing “gender-affirming” treatment by hosting trans people as practice patients.
Groups of students may role-play a doctor’s visit with trans-identifying people, practicing how to ask for their adjectives and provide care, The Register Citizen reported.
Finally, the students and the “patients” will examine the interactions up, discussing ways to improve the practice.
According to The Citizen, one of the “patients,” Dylan Bachmanm,” shares his heath care encounters with the physician students at the University of Connecticut to show them how to create a safe therapeutic setting for trans patients.”
The store also claims that Bachmanm works at the university to “diversify the types of clients individuals work with before they enter the field” to create a more diverse workforce.
Bachmanm tells the individuals about “his” personal experience in care to “make health offices safer for all majority populations,” according to the news outlet.
” I left feeling like I might have changed the lives of other transgender people and maybe other bigger-bodied folks,” Bachmanm said after that initial conference with my first students.
I think I even created a good communication network for these kids that I don’t believe people do until they speak with the person who is going through it, Bachmanm said.
The effort came from the university’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee and former software director Sandra Scippa.
According to Scippa, students usually interact with retirees in their communities, but the school is expanding its scope of patient care.
Administrative Curriculum Coordinator Teresa Sapieha-Yanchak said the university needed 10 transgender individuals for the “gender-affirming education” but recieved 40 questions, CT Insider reported.
There are so many people who have received bad treatment, and they want the students to do much, Sapieha-Yanchak said.” It’s so good to have people who want to do this and want to help students realize, get comfortable, and get the excellent care that they deserve,” Sapieha-Yanchak said.
According to the site of UConn Health, the institution “is firmly committed to providing sympathetic, comprehensive services to members of the trans and gender nonconforming society.”
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