Teaching lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health in a South African health sciences faculty: Addressing the gap

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Müller, Alexandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Health professions education; Heteronormativity; Homophobia; LGBT health; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LESBIANISM; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; TRANSSEXUALITY;

BISEXUALITY; CURRICULUM; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS;

EID: 84891000125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-174     Document Type: Article

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