St George's, University of London
- Start Date: 11 Sep, 2023
- 4 weeks
- Study Content: Videos
Understand current issues in transgender healthcare and learn how to provide culturally competent care to trans individuals.
Course Fee: Free
Certificate Cost: See Fees and Eligibility
Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Explore how to effectively care for trans people
This course will help you gain a deeper understanding of trans people and the common challenges they face when accessing healthcare. You’ll learn more about the trans community overall, including terminology and trans rights in the UK.
Understanding transgender discrimination in healthcare
Trans people face discrimination in our National Healthcare System (NHS), a problem that can be partially attributed to the fact that there isn’t specific transgender healthcare training for healthcare professionals or healthcare students.
Healthcare professionals are often not aware of how best to approach and work with trans patients, which results in trans people receiving a lower standard of care.
Diving into this transgender healthcare training course
Alongside experts at St George’s, University of London, you’ll enhance your skills in different areas.
Initially, you’ll be exposed to common terms used by the trans community, exploring the process of transition from a social and legal perspective and analysing transgender healthcare in the UK.
You’ll learn more about specific issues in transgender healthcare and the various areas of gender-affirming healthcare.
At the final stages of the course, you’ll focus on consolidating your learning from the first three weeks to develop effective and sensitive ways to communicate with trans people using affirming and inclusive language. As well as identifying ways to make the organisations you work and study in more trans-inclusive.
This course is designed for all healthcare students, as well as current NHS doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals within the UK. Non-UK based learners are welcome to join the course but should be aware, that this course reflects the UK healthcare context. Learners practicing outside of the UK are therefore strongly encouraged to source local policies and guidance.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
St George's, University of London
St George’s is the UK’s only university dedicated to medical and health sciences education, training and research.
The university provides a world-class multi-professional health sciences education that equips graduates to meet today’s healthcare needs through relevant scientific research, clinical excellence, strong interpersonal skills and team-based working. Sharing a clinical environment with a major London teaching hospital, its innovative approach to education results in well-rounded, highly skilled clinicians, scientists, and health and social care professionals.
St George’s has more than 250 years of excellence and innovation in research and education resulting in groundbreaking advances in medicine and healthcare. Alumni include Edward Jenner, John Hunter, Muriel Powell and Patrick Steptoe. The university has three research institutes focus on biomedical and scientific discovery, advancing the prevention and treatment of disease in the fields of population health, heart disease and infection - three of the greatest challenges to global health in the 21st century.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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