Queer Frontiers in Medicine: A Structural Competency Approach

Academic Medicine

Volumn 92, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 345-350

  Donald, Cameron A ^a   Dasgupta, Sayantani ^b   Metzl, Jonathan M ^c   Eckstrand, Kristen L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LESBIANISM; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MEDICAL STUDENT; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL MINORITY; TRANSGENDER; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; COMPETENCY-BASED EDUCATION; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL MINORITIES; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; TRANSGENDER PERSONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85007248573     PISSN: 10402446     EISSN: 1938808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000001533     Document Type: Article

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