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Brian Hurley, MD/MBA (c), Kristen Ochoa, MD, Donna Elliott, MD, PhD, Pamela Schaff, MD, and Peter Katsufrakis, MD, MBA. Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave., KAM 100F, Los Angeles, CA 90033, 818 359 9632, bhurley@usc.edu

LGBT health is a comparatively new addition to curricula in medical education. LGBT health curricula can impact attitudes of single groups of medical students, although little is known about the longitudinal reproducibility of student reactions to LGBT health curricula. For the past four years, students and faculty at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine (KSOM) have organized mandatory sessions addressing LGBT health as part of a Year 2 professionalism course. Following each session, students rate the session via anonymous surveys. Measures include session novelty, relevance to professional self-development, relevance to providers in their specialty of interest, and relevance for their own future training. Responses range from 1-4 where 1 is "all new/very relevant" and 4 is "none new/no relevance." The mean and standard errors for the response averages across all four years are: 2.63 (0.08), 1.61 (0.09), 1.68 (0.10), 1.57 (0.10), respectively.

These data suggest that the impact of this session is reproducible from year to year. They further suggest that while KSOM Year II students have some prior exposure to LGBT health issues, students also recognize that LGBT health is relevant to physician training and professional development. To the extent they are generalizable, these results indicate that Year II medical students consistently appreciate and find educational value in LGBT health training. Medical schools may find LGBT health topics enhance students' medical education. LGBT health is an essential component of education relevant to today's medical students.

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