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2023-2024 Electives
93UR740 — GENDER AFFIRMATION SURGERY
93UR740 — GENDER AFFIRMATION SURGERY
Description:
Patient care (both inpatient and outpatient) in diagnosis and management, operative experience and bedside rounds on inpatients, with follow-up and treatment outpatient contacts comprise the major effort. Low ratio of student to instructor makes lecture quite informal. Students will primarily rotate with Urology, Plastic Surgery and OBGYN to receive a wide range of exposure to gender affirmation surgery. If interested, students may be able to also rotate with family medicine in the Gender Health Clinic to gain exposure to all aspects of gender affirming care.
Elective Details:
Primary Contact for Add/Drops: Dana White (danawhit@iu.edu)
Director: Joshua Roth, M.D., Ph.D.
Campus: Indianapolis
Location: Eskenazi/University/Riley
Other Faculty: Dr. Ivan Hadad, Amanda Mizell, DNP, Dr. Jon Hathaway
Open Enrollment or Permission Required?: Permission Required
Learning Objectives
- 1) Evaluate patients with gender dysphoria seeking surgical intervention in an outpatient setting (PC1)
- 2) Participate in both outpatient and inpatient care of surgical patients with gender dysporia, including the evaluation, surgical procedures, and postoperative management (PC1, PC3, PC4, PC5, MK4, MK6)
Assessment
Clinical Performance Evaluation Form; (The students will be assessed through daily observations by the course director Dr. Joshua Roth, and other staff members who provide gender affirming services.)
Activities
Students will be expected to work with multiple surgical sub specialists in Urology, Plastic Surgery, and OBGYN providing care to transgender and gender non-conforming patients in inpatient, outpatient and surgical settings. Schedule will vary by week depending on the clinical workloads of the various physicians.
Enrollment Information
Prerequisites: 3rd or 4th year status
Availability with Max Students per Rotation:
| R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Duty Hours: 40
Time Distribution: 80% Clinical; 10% Lecture/Seminar; 10% Library/Research
Elective Type Category: CP - Clinical Practice
Notes and Enrollment Information:
THIS ELECTIVE DOES NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE INITIAL SENIOR MATCH. Add/Drop Contact Person: Dana White (danawhit@iu.edu). Students should contact Dr. Roth as well as Dana White (danawhit@iu.edu) prior to enrolling in the course to allow ample time to coordinate clinical schedule and potential research project (s). This is a four-week (4 credit elective). If interested in a two-week rotation please see the course information for 93UR741 Gender Affirmation Surgery (Two-Week Elective).
Third Year Elective? Yes
Interprofessional Skills and Service Learning
Interprofessional Collaborative Skills: Yes
Skills Description: Yes, Students will have opportunities for multidisciplinary collaboration with multiple specialties providing gender affirming care including Urology, OBGYN, Plastic Surgery and Family Medicine
Service Learning Included: None