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 3, you will explore LGBTQ+ care relative to Transgender Primary Care with Nathan Levitt, FNP (he/him). 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 take a moment to navigate through Module 1 here as an introduction to this module.
Resources for Module 3:
Map of Bans on Best Practice Medical Care for Transgender Youth (MAPS)
Map of States Limiting or Prohibiting Youth Access to Gender Affirming Care (KFF)
MAPS 2023 LGBTQ Policy Spotlight Report
Learning Resources from the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center (Fenway Institute)
Tool to help provide care based on organs present
AHRQ Website (Plan-Do-Study-Act Worksheet, Directions, and Examples)
Charlene Arcila Trans Wellness Collective
UC San Francisco School of Medicine's Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
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
- Identify and evaluate strategies to address barriers to care and promote health equity for transgender/non-binary individuals within healthcare
- Demonstrate a foundational knowledge of the terms and language used in the transgender/non-binary community
- Identify ways to incorporate intersectionality, gender, and health justice into health professional education and clinical care
- Understand social, clinical, and interpersonal dynamics that improve mental health and quality of life for transgender/non-binary populations
- Describe ways to create inclusive healthcare environments for transgender/non-binary communities.
Authors:
Nathan Levitt, FNP - Module 3 Lecturer
Nathan Levitt, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP), is the Director of LGBTQ and Gender Justice Learning at Yale University School of Nursing. He is currently at Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing in a nursing PhD program with a focus on health equity. He received his Master of Science in Nursing at SUNY Downstate and his Bachelor of Nursing at New York University (NYU). Nathan has been teaching LGBTQ healthcare to nursing and medical schools around the country for over 20 years. Nathan’s clinical practice included working as a clinician at Folx Health, a digital healthcare service provider providing customized medical plans for the LGBTQ community. He has worked as a Nurse Practitioner in the gender affirming surgery program at NYU Langone Health, where he provided education, preoperative, and postoperative care for transgender patients seeking gender-affirming surgery, as well as providing hormone therapy. Nathan was in the first New York State Family Nurse Practitioner Fellowship program and became the Director of Transgender Care at Community Healthcare Network (CHN). He has worked as a Transgender Health consultant to NY State and NY City Department of Health. He worked for 8 years at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, providing care for LGBTQ patients, building transgender health programs, and creating and facilitating curriculum on transgender health. Nathan trains and consults for community health centers, health professional schools, hospitals, and community-based organizations, and has been published widely on transgender health.
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 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.