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Can a Course on Sexuality Counseling Increase Empathy when Working with Sex- and Gender-Minoritized Individuals?
Get PDFThis study examined whether a sexuality counseling course could increase self-perceived empathy for working with Sex and Gender minoritized (SGM)individuals. Forty-two students enrolled in a sexuality counseling course completed empathy assessments prior to starting the course and after completing it. Statistically significant increases in empathy towards gay/lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals were found (moderate to a large effect sizes). Results indicate that, at least under some circumstances, empathy levels for SGM individuals in counselors-in-training (CITs) could be increased through coursework. Increases in practitioner empathy for SGM individuals can translate into lower uniliteral termination rates and better counseling and psychotherapy outcomes
Does Medical School Prepare Doctors to Treat Sexual Health?
Get PDFDoes Medical School Prepare Doctors to Treat Sexual Health?
Abstract
Introduction: Sexual function is a normative process warranting the equal attention of preventive and treatment services throughout the lifespan. Despite growing recognition of the value of human sexuality in clinical settings, there is no standardized sexual wellness curriculum universally administered in medical schools. Accordingly, many current and future physicians feel underprepared when taking care of patients’ sexual health needs.
Methods: To strengthen sexual health knowledge among medical students in Miami, we conducted a brief workshop in February 2020 and March 2021. The workshop provided an introductory overview of the physiology of sexual pleasure and functioning. The curriculum was developed and taught by an associate professor of medicine formally certified as a clinical sexologist. Prior to the workshop, we conducted a brief survey to understand medical students’ experience with sexuality education and identify gaps in training. Post workshop another survey was administered evaluating content as well as instructor proficiency.
Results: Among 62 participants who completed a pre-workshop survey, less than 30% reported being trained to query patients on sexual dysfunction, and just 8% were trained to assess sexual satisfaction. In the post workshop survey, 95% of participants believed the workshop increased their knowledge of sexual functioning and its physiologic markers and nearly all would also recommend the class to other students.
Conclusions: Increased sexual health training in medical schools has the potential to better prepare physicians to serve patients’ diverse sexual health needs and improve patient outcomes
Unidentified Woman Sitting on Chaise
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From Principles to Practice: Creating Language Equity for Deaf Professionals
Get PDFThe past 30 years have seen legal requirements established for access in a wide variety of everyday settings for Deaf people in the United States. This has enabled more access to advanced education and professional opportunities. Institutions and companies have in turn experienced an influx of Deaf professionals in various academic, corporate, and clinical roles. These high-stakes and challenging environments are often left without decision-making guidelines and practices tailored to Deaf professional work that will enable high-quality, holistic support of access including American Sign Language interpreters. We present here a preliminary list of 10 foundational guiding principles situated within a Deaf-centered language equity decision-making framework to support these Deaf professionals and the institutions they work in. Instead of practice driving principles, principles must drive practice in anti-audist structures and efforts that aim to uplift Deaf professionals as fully-included intellectual equals in the workplace
Explainable automated inconsistency detection in biomedical and health literature
Get PDFGiven the exponential growth of scientific information online, researchers often face the daunting task of detecting contradictory statements on crucial health topics. This work develops a comprehensive pipeline for automated contradiction detection that integrates an Information Retrieval (IR) system, machine learning classifiers, and Explainable AI (XAI). The Information Retrieval system is tailored for biomedical data and comprises a datastore, syntactic, and semantic components. Users can input queries, initiating a pipeline that identifies top documents through syntactic analysis and refines results via semantic examination for relevant research claims. Employing a diverse range of Large Language Models such as pre-trained Distil-BERT, BioBERT, PubMedBERT, and Bioformer, the pipeline uses these models to identify contradictions in research claims. Furthermore, an Explainable AI is utilized to further explain the results of the LLMs classifiers. Thus, a three-step development approach, first, an Information Retrieval System to retrieve right set of biomedical documents and statements, second, meticulously designing a contradiction detection classifier using Large Language Models (LLMs), and finally, the integration of Explainable AI to increase transparency by providing detailed explanations of the machine learning classifier’s decisions is developed
History of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company
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Letter from John W. Gregg to Eartha White
Get PDFCorrespondence: Letter from John W. Gregg, Midway, Florida, to Eartha M.M. White, Jacksonville, Florida, regarding adoption appeal for a boy 3-7 years of age. Envelope included. Date: November 16, 1931