AAFP News (06/07/23)
Three new continuing medical education (CME) activities from the American Academy of Family Physicians are designed to improve health equity and specialized patient care. The LGBTQ+Health: Pride in Care activity helps clinicians establish more inclusive and culturally aware practices for LGBTQ+ patients. It includes more than a dozen sessions on subjects like gender-affirming hormone therapy, implicit bias and LGBTQ+ health, and HIV screening and treatment protocols. Post-activity, trainees should be able to exhibit cultural sensitivity to providing medical care to LGBTQ+ patients; create a supportive practice environment; be conversant in clinical issues that disproportionately affect LGBTQ+ patients and their mitigation; and increase health equity and deliver preventive care within this demographic. Meanwhile, the Street Medicine Outreach activity is geared toward physicians who want to initiate or maintain community-level street medicine programs. Its 16 sessions cover clinical topics like wound treatment, behavioral health issues, addressing structural racism and other obstacles, and useful resources. Participants should gain skills in adapting clinical knowledge, harm reduction and upholding professional well-being and career satisfaction. Finally, the Rural Health offering updates an existing program on issues that will likely confront family physicians in rural areas. Upon completion, clinicians should be able to deploy the latest evidence-based guidelines relevant to rural family medicine, self-manage more patient requirements without referral and network with peers.
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