Abstract
Background: In the last 3 years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) declared advancement of understanding the role sex as a biological variable has in research a priority. The burden now falls on educators and clinicians to translate into clinical practice the ensuing body of evidence for sex as a biological variable that clearly shows the effect of sex/gender on disease diagnosis and management. The 2018 Sex and Gender Health Education Summit (SGHE) organized an interdisciplinary and interprofessional workshop to (1) analyze common clinical scenarios highlighting the nuances of sex- and gender-based medicine (SGBM) in presentation, diagnosis, or management of illness; (2) utilize valid educational and assessment tools for a multiprofessional audience; and (3) brainstorm standardized learning objectives that integrate both.Materials and Methods: We describe the iterative process used to create these scenarios, as well as an interprofessional forum to develop standardized SGBM case-based objectives.Results: A total of 170 health education professionals representing 137 schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Public Health, Nursing, Physical, and Occupational Therapy participated in this workshop. After attending the workshop, participants reported a significant increase in comfort level with using diverse educational modalities in the instruction of health profession learners. Recurrent themes included case-based learning, use of sex-neutral cases, simulation, and standardized patient scenarios for educational modalities; and self-assessment, peer assessment, and review of clinical documentation as used assessment tools. Materials created for the workshop included teaching SGBM case scenarios, methods of assessment, and sample standardized objectives.Conclusion: The SGHE Summit provided an interdisciplinary forum to create educational tools and materials for SABV instruction that may be applied to a diverse audience.
Highlights
Over the past two decades, a rapidly growing body of literature has established the influence of sex and gender on the presentation, diagnosis, management, and prognosis of disease processes, and must be incorporated into routine clinical care.[1]
Translation of the science of sex and gender research aligns well with an increasing interest in precision medicine, which explores how treatment or prevention approaches for any disease can be modified for a given cohort or even large-scale populations, based on the combination of genetic, molecular, environmental, and social factors that are unique to those populations.[4]
The 2018 SGHE Summit brought together multiple stakeholders who were engaged in a workshop whose purpose was to demonstrate the integration of sex and gender into an interprofessional curriculum, with workshop participants successfully accomplishing the following goals: (1) synthesize the breadth of evidence that adds to the understanding of sexand gender-specific health in a variety of clinical scenarios; (2) utilize current active learning educational modalities to demonstrate inclusion of sex and gender into existing curricula; (3) create SMART objectives that demonstrate learning and assessment of sex- and gender-inclusive content; and (4) create a framework for initiating an integrative curricular change that is pertinent to specific professions
Summary
Over the past two decades, a rapidly growing body of literature has established the influence of sex and gender on the presentation, diagnosis, management, and prognosis of disease processes, and must be incorporated into routine clinical care.[1] This movement gained momentum in 2016 when the National Institutes of Health (NIH) mandated the inclusion of biological sex in every federally funded basic science research study.[2] The resulting attention to inclusion SAFDAR ET AL. A multistakeholder forum was needed to utilize the diverse expertise of the group in brainstorming the sex- and gender-based medicine (SGBM) nuances relevant to clinical care, using optimally measurable and standardized delivery methods. The 2018 Sex and Gender Health Education Summit (SGHE) organized an interdisciplinary and interprofessional workshop to (1) analyze common clinical scenarios highlighting the nuances of sex- and gender-based medicine (SGBM) in presentation, diagnosis, or management of illness; (2) utilize valid educational and assessment tools for a multiprofessional audience; and (3) brainstorm standardized learning objectives that integrate both. Conclusion: The SGHE Summit provided an interdisciplinary forum to create educational tools and materials for SABV instruction that may be applied to a diverse audience
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