↓ Skip to main content

Gaps in transgender medical education among healthcare providers: A major barrier to care for transgender persons

Overview of attention for article published in Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, June 2018
Altmetric Badge

About this Attention Score

  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (91st percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (60th percentile)

Mentioned by

news
2 news outlets
blogs
2 blogs
twitter
10 X users

Citations

dimensions_citation
158 Dimensions

Readers on

mendeley
222 Mendeley
You are seeing a free-to-access but limited selection of the activity Altmetric has collected about this research output. Click here to find out more.
Title
Gaps in transgender medical education among healthcare providers: A major barrier to care for transgender persons
Published in
Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders, June 2018
DOI 10.1007/s11154-018-9452-5
Pubmed ID
Authors

Sira Korpaisarn, Joshua D. Safer

Abstract

A lack of access to knowledgeable providers is the greatest reported barrier to care for transgender individuals. The purpose of this manuscript is to review the recent literature characterizing transgender medicine education for medical providers and to summarize effective interventions for improving education in transgender care. The PubMed database was searched for all literature that assessed transgender medical education among physicians or trainees and all papers that reported results of transgender-specific educational interventions. Literature that only evaluated general lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) educational interventions was excluded. The lack of education in transgender care continues among providers across all levels of medical education from medical students and physician trainees to primary care providers, endocrinologists and other specialists involved in transgender care. Several interventions have been shown to effectively improve transgender knowledge and cultural competency. Education among healthcare providers is deficient and is considered a major barrier to care for transgender individuals. Effective interventions should be applied to fundamental medical education. Additional focused education also should be taught with specialty-appropriate content to produce needed proficiency among providers of transgender care.

X Demographics

X Demographics

The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 10 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 222 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 222 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 33 15%
Student > Master 30 14%
Researcher 20 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 15 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 5%
Other 39 18%
Unknown 73 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 46 21%
Nursing and Health Professions 38 17%
Social Sciences 16 7%
Psychology 12 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 2%
Other 23 10%
Unknown 83 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 30. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 March 2023.
All research outputs
#1,347,737
of 25,770,491 outputs
Outputs from Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
#60
of 549 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#28,035
of 342,729 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Reviews in Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders
#2
of 5 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,770,491 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 549 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.5. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 342,729 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has scored higher than 3 of them.