How much is needed? Patient exposure and curricular education on medical students’ LGBT cultural competency

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Demographic and experiential variables (N = 940)^a

	M (SD) or n (%)
Age	25.49 (2.90)
LGBT experientials
Patients	13.74 (27.68)
Annual patients	6.02 (20.33)
Curricular hours	5.32 (7.74)
Annual curricular hours	2.22 (2.85)
Extracurricular hours	12.46 (43.01)
Annual extracurricular hours	6.93 (24.97)
Gender identity
Cisgender man	344 (36.6%)
Cisgender woman	586 (62.3%)
Non-binary	4 (0.4%)
Transgender man	2 (0.2%)
Transgender woman	2 (0.2%)
Other^b	2 (0.2%)
Sexual orientation
Bisexual	80 (8.5%)
Gay	48 (5.1%)
Heterosexual	769 (81.8%)
Lesbian	14 (1.5%)
Queer	15 (1.6%)
Other^b	14 (1.5%)
Race
Asian/Asian American	158 (16.8%)
Black/African American	30 (3.2%)
White/Caucasian	674 (71.7%)
Other^b	78 (8.3%)
Ethnicity
Hispanic or Latino	67 (7.1%)
Not Hispanic or Latino	873 (92.9%)
University
University #1	392 (41.7%)
University #2	257 (27.3%)
University #3	291 (31.0%)
Level of training
First year	244 (26.0%)
Second year	250 (26.6%)
Third year	226 (24.0%)
Fourth year	195 (20.7%)
Fifth year and above	22 (2.3%)

Abbreviations: LGBT lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
^aN = 940 for all variables except: age (n = 939), LGBT patients (n = 871), LGBT curricular hours (n = 929), LGBT extracurricular hours (n = 926), and level of training (n = 937)
^bFor “other” categories:
• gender identity: other (n = 2)
• sexual orientation: asexual (n = 3), asexual & demisexual (n = 1), asexual & queer (n = 1), bisexual & heterosexual (n = 1), bisexual & queer (n = 2), gay & queer (n = 2), heterosexual & queer (n = 2), heterosexual & questioning (n = 1), and questioning (n = 1)
• race: Alaska Native & American Indian (n = 1), Albanian & White/Caucasian (n = 1), American Indian (n = 2), American Indian & Black/African American & White/Caucasian (n = 1), American Indian & White/Caucasian (n = 8), Ashkenazi Jewish (n = 1), Asian/Asian American & Middle Eastern & White/Caucasian (n = 1), Asian/Asian American & White/Caucasian (n = 25), Asian/Asian American & White/Caucasian & other (n = 1), Black/African American & White/Caucasian (n = 9), Filipino/Haitian (n = 1), French Creole & White/Caucasian (n = 1), Jewish (n = 1), MENA (n = 1), Mexican (n = 1), Middle Eastern (n = 2), Middle Eastern & North African (n = 1), mixed race (n = 1), Native Hawaiian (n = 2), other (n = 15), Pacific Islander & White/Caucasian (n = 1), and White/Caucasian & other (n = 1)

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