New website founded by McGill University student aims to fill knowledge gaps about sexual health in medicine

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Sex[M]ed, founded by a McGill University medical student, aims to promote subjects misrepresented or absent from healthcare curriculums

Jillian Schneidman, McGill University medical student and founder of Sex[M]ed, a new, online sexual health education platform for health care practitioners.Jillian Schneidman’s doctor failed to ask her a single question about her sexual health, until she had a partner.Schneidman is now halfway through medical school at McGill University and finds nuanced discussion about sexual health is lacking there, too.

Aside from having a firm grasp on the best, most up-to-date information, health care providers need to build trust so “the patient – the person in front of you – feels at ease disclosing aspects of their relationship and life,” said Saleem Razack, a pediatric critical care medicine physician who wrote a piece for Sex[M]ed.for inclusive medical education in this country.

On transgender health, Schneidman said just one week was devoted to the issue in two years of study so far. She hopes to focus her own career on women’s health, trans health and power dynamics in medical encounters. has taught nurses, physicians, paramedics, medical students and residents about LGBTQ+ health, sexual assault and trauma-informed care, among other issues. If medical curricula is to meaningfully address sexual and reproductive health rights, it has to be evidence-based, accessible, consistent and centred on the patient, Webber argued.

 

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