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Table 4 Disciplines and teaching format

From: Teaching lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender health in a South African health sciences faculty: addressing the gap

Discipline

N (lecturers)

Teaching format

Human biology

2

Lectures and seminars with discussion on development of sex disorders, intersex, transitioning of transgender people

Primary health care directorate

1

Problem-based learning cases involve issues of gender and sexuality

Clinical laboratory sciences

1

One lecture on sexual orientation and HIV* & STIs+

Psychiatry

2

Lectures and seminars as “Introduction to Clinical Practice” and during Psychiatry module

Medicine

1

One lecture on HIV and men who have sex with men

One elective clinical placement in a Men’s Health Clinic

Paediatrics

2

One lecture on paediatric endocrinology around disorders of sex development, else only “opportunistic teaching on ward rounds or if asked”

Family medicine

1

Elective special study module for 5th year students

  1. *HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus, +STI: Sexually Transmitted Infection.