Incorporating Gender-Affirming Care in Health Professions Curricula

Trans and gender diverse people experience marginalization and discrimination throughout society, including healthcare settings. A lack of adequate training leaves many healthcare providers feeling unprepared to support and care for trans and gender diverse individuals, exacerbating health disparities. Compared to cisgender people, trans individuals face greater barriers to accessing care, experience an increased burden of disease with a significantly greater incidence of behavioral health issues and disproportionately higher rates of suicide.

Healthcare education has a critical role to play in eliminating health disparities. The skills emphasized by gender-affirming care practices improve provider competence to deliver care to diverse individuals.

Join us for a conversation with the Director of LGBTQ and Gender Justice Learning at Yale’s School of Nursing, Nathan Levitt FNP-BC, MSN, RN, BSN, MA and Kognito's Head of Product, Healthcare Gurnek Singh to discuss best practices for training healthcare providers in gender-affirming care.

Learn what constitutes gender-affirming care, including best practices, relevant skills and techniques, and common pitfalls
Examine how gender identity and sexual orientation relate to social determinants of health
Facilitate gender-affirming care training at your institution

Evaluating current practices
Adjusting terminology
Embracing gender-affirming care as uniform compassionate care for all patients

Live Demo of Kognito’s Gender-Affirming Care virtual clinical encounter
Q&A

Our Presenters:

Nathan Levitt FNP-BC, MSN, RN, BSN, MA

Director of LGBTQ and Gender Justice Learning, Yale’s School of Nursing

Nathan Levitt, MSN, FNP-BC, BSN, RN, MA (he/him)- Nathan is a family nurse practitioner who holds degrees from Emory University, Simmons College, NYU College of Nursing, and the SUNY Downstate Family Nurse Practitioner Program, and has completed a nurse practitioner fellowship program in transgender care. Nathan has spent two decades providing primary medical care to the transgender and gender nonconforming community, engaging in outreach, education, research, and writing extensively about the healthcare needs of trans and non-binary people. He most recently served as the nurse practitioner coordinator of the transgender surgery program at NYU Langone, is currently serving as the Director of LGBTQ and Gender Justice Learning at Yale’s School of Nursing, and provides telemedicine care to transgender patients through FOLX Health.

Gurnek Singh

Head of Product, Healthcare, Kognito

Gurnek Singh (he/him) specializes in the application of digital innovations to improve healthcare delivery, reduce staff burden, and drive patient education and engagement. Gurnek has held leadership roles as a channels and innovation strategist for health systems and private enterprise. Gurnek joined Kognito in 2018 to lead the growth and development of Kognito’s virtual human simulation solutions for healthcare.

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