Jamie Feldman, MD, presents: The Sexual Medicine Elective for Family Medicine Residents: Increasing Exposure, Improving Confidence
Update: 2016-09-14
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Both medical students and practicing physicians report being underprepared to adequately address their patients' sexual health needs. Recent studies have demonstrated little dedicated time and variable content in medical school or residency program instruction on sexual health. To meet this need, the University of Minnesota's Department of Family Medicine and Community Health developed a required sexual medicine workshop for family medicine residents. A sexual medicine elective was created in 2009 to further advance residents' exposure and skills in the area of sexual health. A 2-4 week sexual medicine elective was created in 2009 to further advance residents' exposure and skills in the area of sexual health. This session will briefly review the development, context and evolution of the sexual medication elective since its inception. The current evaluation instrument, which includes demographic information, history of various sexual health patient encounters, and pre and post elective confidence in diagnosing and treating common sexual health concerns, will be discussed. Finally, the present will cover preliminary results from 2009, in which eighty residents have completed the elective, with preliminary results showing significant improvement in confidence across all measures.
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