Description
Welcome!
Welcome to Provider Learning to Enhance LGBTQ+ Care, an asynchronous, self-paced continuing education course. Through a variety of interactive videos, presentations, and activities, you will learn skills that will help you to address the shortage of appropriately trained health & social service providers. Throughout the course, you will learn and apply essential knowledge to improve health outcomes for the rapidly growing LGBTQ+ population. You will also have the opportunity to examine the ways sexuality and gender are constituted, contested, and embodied in light of multiple historical, social, and political frameworks.
In part 2, you will explore LGBTQ+ care relative to Degendering Reproductive Healthcare: providing care to gender and sexual minority patients through a reproductive justice lens with Dr. Kara Malone, MD, MPH, (she/her). We hope you enjoy this course and others in this series, where you will prioritize growing your skills to be an advocate for LGBTQ+ identities & communities in the fields of healthcare.
If you haven't already, please navigate through Module 1 here as an introduction to this module.
Resources for Module 2:
AHRQ Website (Plan-Do-Study-Act Worksheet, Directions, and Examples)
The LGBTQ+ Healthcare Certificate is specifically designed to address the shortage of appropriately trained health & social service providers. Taking a population health approach & rooted in humanistic scholarship, the goal of the certificate is to educate & empower health & social service professionals with the critical knowledge & tools needed to provide comprehensive, equitable & culturally humble care to LGBTQ+ patients. In doing so, we aim to improve health outcomes for the rapidly growing sexual & gender minority population.
In order to take the post-test, you will need to be logged into your OSU CCME account.
Dates and Times
End Date: 4/13/2029
Objectives
- Understand how the history of OB/GYN informs current practice
- Define Reproductive Health, Reproductive Rights, and Reproductive Justice
- Understand how Reproductive Justice and the healthcare of Gender and Sexual Minorities (GSM) are inextricably linked
- Understand how current clinical practice creates barriers for GSM seeking reproductive healthcare
- Learn methods to de-gender OB/GYN, in particular, and healthcare, in general
Authors:
Kara Malone - Module 2 Lecturer
Dr. Kara Malone is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist with a longstanding vested interest in providing culturally affirming inclusive care to gender and sexual minorities. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of Virginia and then attended medical school at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. While in Chicago, Dr. Malone served a term as president of the medical school LGBTQAI2s+ group Queers and Allies. As president, she worked to increase medical student exposure to the care of the LGBTQAI2s+community and was awarded the Vince McCoy Honorary Leadership Award for showing excellent leadership skills within the LGBT community, as well as a strong commitment to academics, campus involvement, and community service. Dr. Malone completed residency at Virginia Tech Carilion Clinic, where she was able to continue her work taking care of gender and sexual minorities. Immediately following residency Dr Malone joined the faculty in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Ohio State University. During her time at OSU, Dr. Malone completed a public health degree and was able to form relationships within the university and community to provide care to gender and sexual minorities within and around central Ohio. Currently, she is practicing in the metro area of Houston, Texas.
Shannon Winnubst - Project Manager
Dr. Shannon Winnubst is Professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies at The Ohio State University. She specializes in queer studies, neoliberalism, and race/racialization in the United States.
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Ali Alkhalifa - Curriculum Designer & Coordinator
Ali Alkhalifa (he/him or they/them) is the Education Program Specialist for the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department. Ali helped research and coordinate with various lecturers with whom he co-created the LGBTQ+ healthcare content. He received a B.A. and M.A. in Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and is passionate about feminist pedagogies, media analysis, and LGBTQ+ health disparities.
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Alex Souza - Curriculum & Instructional Designer
Alex Souza, M. Ed, is an Instructional Designer in the Office of Distance Education within the College of Arts and Sciences. Alex is passionate about making learning experiences more inclusive and engaging. He prioritizes empathy when considering the learner's experience and while collaborating with stakeholders and colleagues.
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Jessica Henderson - Curriculum & Instructional Designer
Jessica Henderson is a Senior Instructional Designer at Ohio State, specializing in accessible, inclusive, and engaging online learning experiences. Her interdisciplinary background spans curriculum development, distance education, foreign language instruction, and quantitative and qualitative analysis. Grounded in Universal Design for Learning and UX design principles, her work emphasizes motivation, Gameful learning, scenario‑based learning, and active learning strategies in online environments. She currently serves as the lead expert in designing immersive digital educational escape rooms and pioneering creative uses of AI in education, supporting innovative online teaching practices and alternative assessment strategies.
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Sarah Dove - Curriculum & Instructional Designer
Sarah Dove holds a PhD in Comparative Studies from The Ohio State University, an MA in Dance Theories and Practices from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a BA in Music and Business from Otterbein College. For the last eight years, Sarah has invested significant time working in curriculum and instructional development in higher education with keen attention to access pedagogy and diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice frameworks. Sarah is very proud to have supported the LGBTQ+ Healthcare CEU project during planning and early development stages. This initiate is an important resource for healthcare professionals to bolster point-of-care for marginalized individuals.
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Matthew Carter - Audiovisual Production Specialist
Matt brings expertise in instructional video and podcast production and editing, photography, software recordings for complex technical training, case-based simulation videos, and more.
Accreditation Statement
The Ohio State University is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The Ohio State University designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.