Queers & Allies at Feinberg School of Medicine

We love the new look! Happy 🌈.

FYI

GLMA (Gay and Le***an Medical Association) Call for Abstracts is open NOW!

Submit your LGBTQ health related AOSC projects!

GLMA - Call for Abstracts 2017 GLMA is calling for abstracts for its 35th GLMA Annual Conference on LGBT Health, which will be held September 13-16, 2017, in Philadelphia, PA. Please click below to submit your abstract online.

Check out this video about LGBTQ life at Feinberg! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH_fqw8w6n8

An Inclusive Space Feinberg students and faculty open up about LGBTQ acceptance.

If you have witnessed or experienced bias or discrimination against any group of people at Northwestern, we want to know about it. We have recently launched a student-run initiative to collect information about such incidents of bias or discrimination. The stories we receive will be used to run periodic discussion forums, so that we can better understand each other’s experiences and work together to improve the policies and culture of our institution.

We have set up three boxes in which people can submit reports: one in AWOME near Terrence’s desk, one in the office of diversity and inclusion, and one in Galter Library by the bathrooms on the first floor. There is also an online version: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GxLzWJHBg4N2viyR0Jmw3X-ZZEHqnah-YDxuu6ejxrE/

We ask people to include their names in case we have follow-up questions. We will keep everyone’s names confidential, except in mandatory reporting cases (child abuse, danger to self/others, and sexual harassment), in which case we are required to pass on your report to someone in administration, who will follow-up as per the processes in the student handbook.

This system of reporting is being initiated as a pilot program. In a few months, the student leaders and the deans will meet to determine whether it is worth continuing.

If you have any questions, send them to Lynn Ren, Nada Ali, or Stephen Whitfield.

Thanks a ton!

Student-Run Bias Incident Survey We, as Feinberg students, want to ensure that Feinberg and Northwestern Memorial Hospital are fully inclusive for all people, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, religion, immigration status, political affiliation, or any other part of their identity. In order to do so, we must be awar...

Come to NU Q***r Pride Graduate Student Association's largest social event of the winter. $10 for two hours of unlimited drinks at minibar tonight from 9-11. Shake off the cold with a live DJ and great company. Hope to see you there!

Want to learn about the LGBT community and learn what you can do to make your work environment a safe space? Check out our LGBT Safe Space offerings! In-person workshop just scheduled for April 25th from 1:00-3:00PM.

http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/diversity/programs-groups/lgbt-safe-space-training.html

LGBT Safe Space Training: Diversity and Inclusion: Feinberg School of Medicine: Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine’s Safe Space Training has been expanded and updated through a partnership between the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Qu**rs and Allies student group, the Gender and Sexuality Curriculum Taskforce, and the Department of Medical Education.

Take a study break! Stop by the OutNetwork mixer for LGBTQ students, residents, and faculty in Method Atrium today (Friday, Jan 20) from 5-7pm!

We are hosting a student-run LGBT CEC session TONIGHT!

This is a great opportunity to practice clinical skills relevant to patients in the LGBT community. The cases are written by students and performed by student SPs and are designed to contain issues of particular interest for the LGBT community. Come practice Sexual history taking, learn about PrEP, and learn about health issues unique to the LGBT population.

The session will be Wednesday November 30th from 5-7PM.

Please fill out the following RSVP form (by 4pm) if you are interested in attending: https://goo.gl/forms/95OPiJwbkKSgcshx2

LGBT CEC session RSVP In the CEC!

Let's continue the conversation here at Feinberg:

" How can the long-standing goal of enhancing diversity in medicine be achieved? How can female physicians, doctors of color or LGBT physicians overcome the discrimination that still impedes their ability to fulfill their calling?"

As bias persists, challenges arise on diversity in medicine Too many physicians face hurtful assumptions about “what a doctor looks like.” What is needed to forge a new conversation on diversity in medicine?

FYI POST ELECTION ACTION FORUM

Date - Monday, November 28, 2016
Time - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location - Lake View Presbyterian (716 W. Addison St., Chicago)

The goal of the community forum is to create space for LGBTQ communities and our intersections to live in an environment of equal treatment where all can thrive.

The forum will have three objectives:
1. Discuss the protections that are at risk for LGBTQ Americans
2. Learn how the LGBTQ community & other groups are responding
3. Find opportunities to take action and volunteer

Event Co-Sponsors: Equality Illinois, Howard Brown, AFC (AIDS Foundation of Chicago), TPAN (Test Positive Action Network), Chicago Black Gay Men's Caucus, Chicago House, BTAN Chicago (Black Treatment Advocates Network), ALMA, Center on Halsted, Pride Action Tank, Affinity, Puerto Rican Cultural Center (Vida Sida)

Post-Election Action Forum

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