University of Minnesota to launch first-of-its-kind LGBTQ health elective

The University of Minnesota has announced it will launch an LGBTQ health elective for its students, becoming the first medical school in the United States to do so. Into reports that the University will seek advice from Family Tree Clinic and the Pride Institute, both LGBT+ organisations, to write the curriculum.

Only six students have signed up for the class so far, but the university expects many more to follow as the importance of LGBT-specific healthcare becomes more apparent.

“The ultimate hope is, one, to legitimize this as an area of interest and maybe even focus for future physicians,” said Dr. Michael Ross, chair of Sexual Health Education in the Program in Human Sexuality at the school, to Into. “The second is to provide the medical students who are about to become physicians with actual focused training in the populations they have an interest in serving.”

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