UPDATE ITEMS:
- RHC leadership meets with Touro Provost, Dr. Hopkins, to discuss non discrimination policy amendment
- GLMA Recommendations for LGBT issues in health professional schools (update by Irene Smarr)
- Sexual medicine clinical integration for OMSI
- Establishing an elective rotation in Transgender Medicine in San Francisco
- Has RHC become a frumpy student organization (should RHC party more)?!
We
did it! Our campus will amend its non discrimination policy. The new policy includes the exact
language originally proposed by RHC to the administration. Both "gender identity" and "gender expression" will be explicitly enumerated as
protected characteristics for all programs at Touro University, California. Thank you to
everyone who participated. I especially want to thank new members who
were responsible for collecting the majority of the signatures; also
Apar, SGA president, who came with RHC leadership to present the
signatures and discuss the issue, and (of course) RHC's new faculty advisor, Dr. Fagan.
GLMA Recommendations for LGBT issues in health professional schools
(This item comes from RHC's all-star secretary, Irene Smarr
GLA's Medschool Recommendation document has finally been created and released. We are already on our way! They emphasize the need to make the campus feel like a safe and open space and increasing awareness of health disparities among straight students; they emphasize things to do in addition to adapting curriculum to be inclusive. We have already championed the change of the non discrimination language (yeah!).
After reading it, there are three things that stand out to me:
- I'd really like to see the single stall bathrooms in Wilderman become unisex.
- I'm reminded that we were going to get safe space markers for teacher offices
- Does Ed Bauer have a list of teachers/admin that are out and willing to be on a list as a resource for students who may not be out and go to him?
Sexual medicine clinical integration for OMSI
RHC has gotten approval to influence a clinical integration for first year COM! Contacts for this are Brenna Sommer and Dr. Fagan.
We especially encourage OMSI members to get involved, and help gauge
where your class is at in their understanding. We should form a
working group for this, with discussion at our next general meeting.
Establishing an elective rotation in Transgender Medicine in San Francisco
If you are in the PA program, or know someone who is and wants to do a rotation in Transgender Medicine. Please contact me. The rest of this update pertains to COM only at this point.
I met with Dr. Troll last week, he is a faculty member involved in clinical education for COM. We went over the process for approving new elective rotation sites. Essentially, the process for approving an elective rotation for the entire class is the same as the process for an individual student. That is good news for us! The main requirement is to establish a faculty affiliation agreement with the proposed preceptors at the Lyon Martin Center. I will start the process later this semester, expect some updates. If you're interested in learning more about the rotation, visit http://project-health.org/
Why hasn't RHC thrown a party yet, or done something social?
Good question, I don't know. In the past, RHC has had potlucks and social events (and sometimes less advocacy work). I'm not saying they're mutually exclusive at all. We may want to consider getting back on the party circuit.
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Thanks everyone, I'm thrilled to see new members stepping up and taking ownership of RHC. Let's keep the momentum going!!!
Sincerely,
RHC President
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