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3/12/2024 - Medical Grand Rounds: Gender Affirming Medicine: Framing and Insights for 2024

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

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

    • Describe how gender identity can be incongruent with other biology.
    • Describe the typical medical treatment strategy for trans and gender diverse people seeking intervention.  
    • List surgical options that trans and gender diverse people might consider.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

    Suggested Additional Reading:
  • Safer JD.  Research gaps in medical treatment of transgender/non-binary people.  J Clin Invest 2021; 131(4):e142029.  PMID  33586675
  • Safer JD, Tangpricha V.  Care of transgender persons.  N Engl J Med 2019; 381(25):2451-2460.  PMID  31851801
  • Safer JD, Tangpricha V.  Care of the transgender patient.  Ann Intern Med 2019; 171(1):ITC1-ITC6.  PMID  31261405


Joint Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh 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 (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Authors:
Joshua D. Safer, MD, FACP, FACE — Executive Director, Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery, Mount Sinai Health System| Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.