Integrating trans health knowledge through instructional design: preparing learners for a continent - not an island - of primary care with trans people.

Integrating trans health knowledge through instructional design: preparing learners for a continent - not an island - of primary care with trans people. Educ Prim Care. 2021 Feb 11;:1-4 Authors: MacKinnon KR, Kia H, Rai N, Abramovich A, Cheung JJH Abstract In recent years the need to teach primary care providers to better care for transgender and non-binary (trans) patients has garnered significant scholarly and public attention. The alarming why motivating this surge in trans health primary care education has already been firmly established and needs no further comment. Instead, we offer new perspectives on how to do trans health primary care education. From treasured 'trans 101' educational interventions to trans health 'clinical pearls', the prevailing model used to teach primary care learners represents time-limited cultural competency-based education, which we argue creates an isolated education 'island'. In rethinking this approach, we present an introduction to the concepts of knowledge integration and the transfer of learning and apply them to show how trans health knowledge and skills should be structured within existing curricula to support effective learning and application. These instructional design considerations have yet to be extensively explored when teaching primary care learners trans health content and may be critical to building pedagogy that ultimately improves healthcare delivery. We conclude that trans health ...
Source: Education for Primary Care - Category: Primary Care Tags: Educ Prim Care Source Type: research