Education intervention with residents improves understanding of transgender issues

(Boston University Medical Center) The term 'transgender' has made its way into mainstream media, but for many physicians, or physicians-in-training, who do not typically treat transgender patients, transgender medicine is still a mystery. Joshua Safer, MD, FACP, endocrinologist at Boston Medical Center and his colleague conducted an intervention with physician resident trainees and found that by providing education about transgender identity, the residents' knowledge and willingness to assist w...