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Best Practices for Interacting With Transgender Patients Across the Care Continuum: Key Takeaways

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In this module, a primary care specialist uses a series of practice scenarios to highlight helpful and unhelpful ways to interact and communicate with transgender patients across the spectrum of care, including initial phone contact, at the front desk, and in the exam room.

Pharmacists: 0.50 contact hour (0.05 CEUs)

Nurses: 0.50 Nursing contact hour

Physicians: Maximum of 0.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit

Released: July 14, 2023

Expiration: July 13, 2024

No longer available for credit.

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Faculty

Madeline B. Deutsch

Madeline B. Deutsch, MD, MPH

Professor of Clinical Family & Community Medicine
Medical Director, Gender Affirming Health Program
Department of Family & Community Medicine
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California

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Provided by Clinical Care Options, LLC

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Supporters

Supported by an educational grant from Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

Target Audience

This educational program is intended for all healthcare professionals across multiple disciplines and specialties who care for transgender individuals, including medical oncologists, gynecologists, HIV specialists, primary care physicians, pharmacists, nurses, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.

Program Learning Goal

The goal of this education is to advance knowledge, competence, and performance of healthcare professionals to ensure they are providing inclusive care for all patients, including cancer screening and preventive care for transgender individuals.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Implement strategies to build a compassionate and inclusive healthcare environment to foster a comfortable and trusting relationship between healthcare professionals and transgender individuals

  • Plan effective screening and cancer prevention plans based on an anatomical checklist consistent with the patient’s current anatomical structure

Disclosure

Clinical Care Options, LLC (CCO) requires instructors, planners, managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of this activity to disclose all financial conflicts of interest (COI) they may have with ineligible companies. All relevant COI are thoroughly vetted and mitigated according to CCO policy. CCO is committed to providing its learners with high-quality CME/CE activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of an ineligible company.

The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they have with ineligible companies related to the content of this educational activity:

Primary Author

Madeline B. Deutsch, MD, MPH

Professor of Clinical Family & Community Medicine
Medical Director, Gender Affirming Health Program
Department of Family & Community Medicine
University of California San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Madeline Deutsch, MD, MPH, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

The planners and content peer reviewers from Clinical Care Options, LLC do not have any relevant financial relationships to disclose, except Kristi K. Orbaugh as noted below.

Kristi K. Orbaugh, MSN, NP, AOCNP: consultant/advisor/speaker: AstraZeneca, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CTI, DSI, Gilead, Lilly, MorphoSys, Pfizer.

Instructions for Credit

Participation in this self-study activity should be completed in approximately 0.5 hours. To successfully complete this activity and receive credit, learners must follow these steps during the period from July 14, 2023, through July 13, 2024:

  1. Login or Sign Up for an account by clicking at the top of this page
  2. Read the target audience, learning objectives, and faculty disclosures
  3. View and study the content in its entirety
  4. Submit answers to the post-test questions and evaluation questions online

You must receive a test score of at least 65 and respond to all evaluation questions to receive a certificate. After submitting the evaluation, you may access your online certificate by selecting the certificate link on the confirmation page. Records of all CME/CE activities completed can be found on the "My Certificates" page. There are no costs/fees for this activity.

Format

This program has been made available online.

Disclosure of Unlabeled Use

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications.

The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Disclaimer

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

Accreditation

Joint Accreditation Statement
Joint AccreditationIn support of improving patient care, Clinical Care Options, LLC (CCO) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. 

 

Physician Continuing Medical Education
CCO designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing Continuing Professional Development
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Nursing Continuing Professional Development activity is 0.5 contact hour.

Continuing Pharmacy Education

CCO designates this continuing education activity for 0.5 contact hour (0.1 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.

Universal Activity Number: JA4008176-0000-23-185-H05-P

Type of Activity: Application

Upon successfully completing the post-test with a score of 65% or better and the activity evaluation form, transcript information will be sent to the NABP CPE Monitor Service within 60 days.