An Evaluation of Cancer‘s Margins Training Videos and Their Impact on Medical Students‘ Self-Rated Confidence in Working with Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender (LBT) Patients with Breast and Gynecological Cancers

Autores/as

  • Joanna Coulas Dalhousie University
  • Jacqueline Gahagan Mount Saint Vincent University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15273/hpj.v2i1.11235

Resumen

Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT) patients with breast and gynecological cancers face unique challenges and barriers to accessing LBT-affirming health care. Physician attitudes and knowledge around working with LBT patients contribute to these challenges and barriers. Despite this, there is very limited LBT-specific education in the medical curriculum. Cancer‘s Margins (https://www.lgbtcancer.ca/) is a national project funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Through the Cancer‘s Margins project, a series of first-person videos were developed that can serve as additional training content for medical students for working with LBT patients with what has been traditionally termed “women‘s cancers.” The focus is on LBT individuals specifically, rather than the broader 2SLGBTQA+ community, because of the anatomy involved with breast and gynecological cancers. This project serves to evaluate the impact of the Cancer‘s Margins videos on the self-reported confidence of Dalhousie University medical students in working with these populations. Medical students were invited to participate in a two-part online survey using a 38-item survey that explored self-rated confidence before and after watching the Cancer‘s Margins videos. There were four open-ended questions for feedback on the videos to help assess overall self-rated impact. Ultimately, 23 surveys were either fully or partially completed. Overall attitudes toward LBT patients were positive, but overall confidence was variable. There was an average increase of 8% in overall group self-rated confidence after watching the Cancer‘s Margins videos. Incorporating training for working with LBT patients into the medical school curriculum could increase quality of care and break down barriers in access to care for LBT populations. The Cancer‘s Margins training videos can be an effective resource for medical students for increasing self-reported confidence.

Biografía del autor/a

Joanna Coulas, Dalhousie University

MD Candidate, Class of 2024

Dalhousie University

Jacqueline Gahagan, Mount Saint Vincent University

Associate Vice President, Research

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