Unreasonable Expectations: A Call for Training and Educational Transparency in Gender-affirming Surgery
Summary:. Although in most areas of practice, there is a reasonable expectation that doctors are sufficiently trained to offer care, this is not true in the case of gender-affirming procedures, which are not required learning in any surgical residency. At the current time, the field of gender surger...
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| author | Elizabeth R. Boskey, PhD, MPH, MSSW Jessica D. Kant, MPH, MSW |
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| description | Summary:. Although in most areas of practice, there is a reasonable expectation that doctors are sufficiently trained to offer care, this is not true in the case of gender-affirming procedures, which are not required learning in any surgical residency. At the current time, the field of gender surgery is too rapidly evolving, with available resources too scarce for fellowship or residency training to be a realistic requirement for offering these procedures, as the demand already outstrips the available workforce. However, patients are currently given too little information about surgeons’ history with these procedures to provide truly informed consent. There is, as such, an ethical mandate to mold the culture of gender-affirming surgery such that surgeons are expected to routinely disclose relevant information about their training, experience, and outcomes to facilitate patient decision-making about care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-49a70f869e704397990619f17ade83dc2023-01-20T02:34:50ZengWolters KluwerPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open2169-75742023-01-01111e473410.1097/GOX.0000000000004734202301000-00018Unreasonable Expectations: A Call for Training and Educational Transparency in Gender-affirming SurgeryElizabeth R. Boskey, PhD, MPH, MSSW0Jessica D. Kant, MPH, MSW1From the * Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.‡ Department of Clinical Practice, Boston University School of Social Work, Boston, Mass.Summary:. Although in most areas of practice, there is a reasonable expectation that doctors are sufficiently trained to offer care, this is not true in the case of gender-affirming procedures, which are not required learning in any surgical residency. At the current time, the field of gender surgery is too rapidly evolving, with available resources too scarce for fellowship or residency training to be a realistic requirement for offering these procedures, as the demand already outstrips the available workforce. However, patients are currently given too little information about surgeons’ history with these procedures to provide truly informed consent. There is, as such, an ethical mandate to mold the culture of gender-affirming surgery such that surgeons are expected to routinely disclose relevant information about their training, experience, and outcomes to facilitate patient decision-making about care.http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/GOX.0000000000004734 |
| spellingShingle | Elizabeth R. Boskey, PhD, MPH, MSSW Jessica D. Kant, MPH, MSW Unreasonable Expectations: A Call for Training and Educational Transparency in Gender-affirming Surgery Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open |
| title | Unreasonable Expectations: A Call for Training and Educational Transparency in Gender-affirming Surgery |
| title_full | Unreasonable Expectations: A Call for Training and Educational Transparency in Gender-affirming Surgery |
| title_fullStr | Unreasonable Expectations: A Call for Training and Educational Transparency in Gender-affirming Surgery |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unreasonable Expectations: A Call for Training and Educational Transparency in Gender-affirming Surgery |
| title_short | Unreasonable Expectations: A Call for Training and Educational Transparency in Gender-affirming Surgery |
| title_sort | unreasonable expectations a call for training and educational transparency in gender affirming surgery |
| url | http://journals.lww.com/prsgo/fulltext/10.1097/GOX.0000000000004734 |
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