1055 - Finding the DEI in LGBTQIA: Incorporating LGBTQIA diversity in your environment

Saturday, April 23, 2022

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM US MT

Location: Convention Center: 107/109

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Course Number: 1055

Leader(s)

Ian Chua, MD, MHPE (he/him/his)

Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hospitalist
Stanford children's / children's national
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Margarita Ramos, MD, MS

Assistant Professor
Children's National Hospital
Arlington, Virginia, United States
Gabrina Dixon, MD, MEd (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Children's National Health System
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Kevin Chi, MD (he/him/his)

Clinical Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Castro Valley, California, United States
HM

Heather McKnight, MD

Pediatric Hospital Medicine Professor
Pediatrics
UC Davis
Sacramento, California, United States
Jessica Allan, MD (she/her/hers)

Pediatric Hospitalist, Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor
Palo Alto Medical Foundation/ Stanford Children's Hospital
Palo Alto, California, United States
Zachary Pettigrew, MD (he/him/his)

Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Cone Health
Durham, North Carolina, United States

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Ian Chua, MD, MHPE: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Margarita Ramos, MD, MS: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Gabrina Dixon, MD, MEd: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Kevin Chi, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Heather McKnight, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Jessica M. Allan, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Z J. Pettigrew, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

LGBTQIA diversity typically is not at the forefront when speaking of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) but overlaps with many issues including gender politics, discrimination, inclusivity, safety, racism, and nonconventional forms of expression. The challenges of the LGBTQIA community are at best cursorily understood to medical educators and faculty. This workshop highlights basic language, core definitions, and central issues that need to be understood in order to successfully incorporate LGBTQIA topics into student curricula, faculty development (particularly creating safe learning environments and workspaces), professionalism, scholarship, and advocacy.

Participants will first be introduced to the basic language, common definitions, and the minority stress sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) conceptual model to demonstrate thematic issues faced by the LGTBQIA community. Through dialogue and video presentations, facilitators will demonstrate how topics in the LGTBQIA space have evolved and arrived to the current state. Participants will then engage in debate surrounding workplace cases and scenarios met by LGTBQIA students and faculty. They will have the opportunity to learn from standardized best practices promoting LGBTQIA inclusive workplaces, recommendations for curricular and institutional climate changes for the improvement of LGBTQIA patient care, and real-life examples of successes in boosting student recruitment to residency, teaching, and scholarship. Facilitators will help participants actively build plans to immediately apply self-reflections from the workshop and transform them into action for targeted domains in their personal life and work settings such as in curriculum building, patient care, personal development, workplace/institutional culture change, and student support/advising.