LGBTQ Healthcare Education and Resources

• Massachusetts Department of Health Services LGBT Youth Health website
  This page lists all regional and local resources for LGBT youth, which are great to have on hand for patients. Many of the resources are Massachusetts- or region-specific.
• Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) Greater Boston
  PFLAG supports and educates parents, family, and friends of LGBT persons and LGBT persons like. Locally, they maintain a 24-hour helpline (866-427-3524) and should be the first stop for LGBT persons, family, and friends who could benefit from better social support.

• The Fenway Institute’s National LGBT Health Education CenterThe Fenway Institute offers online learning modules, monthly webinars (and archives), and online courses for CME/CEU credit. Under Publications, see their briefs, especially “Improving the Health Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) People: Understanding and Eliminating Health Disparities.” They have published an excellent textbook dedicated to LGBT health, The Fenway Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health (2008), ISBN-13: 978-1930513952.
• Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (GLMA)
  Under Resources/Publications, see their “Guidelines for Care of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients.” GLMA prepares Top Ten guides for LGBT patients to bring up with their physicians (see Resources/For Patients). They also offer an online CME course on tobacco use and interventions for LGBT persons.
• Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (previously the Institute of Medicine)
  An IOM committee conducted a review assessing the state of the science on the health status of LGBT populations; identified research gaps and opportunities related to LGBT health; and outlined a research agenda that is assisting the NIH in enhancing its research efforts in this area. Follow the link above or search the website for the report “The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding.”

• LGBT Mental Health Syllabus
  This website was created by the LGBT Issues Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) to teach psychiatry residents about caring for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex patients. Impressive in both its breadth and depth, it should be useful to all health and mental health trainees and practitioners.
• The LGBT Casebook(2012)
  Edited by Petros Levounis, MD, MA, Jack Drescher, MD, and Mary E. Barber, MD, this book is an elegantly-written, rich resource that every psychiatrist should own. It is a masterfully organized exploration of everyday problems, concerns, and solutions for the professional treating LGBT persons with psychiatric diagnoses. Every physician can benefit from this casebook’s excellent treatment of the unique social conditions of sexual minorities. ISBN-13: 978-1585624218.

• World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
  WPATH is the world’s preeminent organization dedicated to evidence-based care, education, research, advocacy, public policy, and respect in transgender and transsexual health. Their Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender-Nonconforming People, version 7 is available free on their website.
• UCSF – Center of Excellence for Transgender HealthThe Center’s primary care protocols (under Routine Care) are clearly organized by topic.
• TransLine
  TransLine is a national online transgender medical consultation service that offers health care providers up-to-date transgender clinical information and free individualized case consultation across a broad range of clinical transgender issues.

• National Coalition for LGBT Health
• National Library of Medicine

This highly engaging and informative 90-minute overview gives senior healthcare managers the information they need to ensure that their organizations provide optimal care for LGBT patients and are in full compliance with CMS and Joint Commission requirements. Managers can attend on any of the six training dates offered, and can attend individually or together. Because the Executive Briefing covers organizational best practices in detail, non-managerial employees are encouraged to attend one or both of the webinars below instead. Register or learn more.

This 60-minute webinar is ideal for interested non-managerial employees. Employees can attend on any of the six training dates offered, and can attend individually or together. Managers who have attended the Executive Briefing in 2012 or 2013 shouldn’t attend this webinar, since its content is covered in the Executive Briefing. Learn more.

This 60-minute webinar is ideal for staff members who want to learn more about how their organizations can better serve transgender patients. Please note, however, that it focuses on organizational practices, not clinical information. Employees can attend on any of the three training dates offered, and can attend individually or together. Learn more.