Responsible Sexual Behavior Project
Medical Student Presenter - On behalf of the AMSA Community and Public Health Action Committee, I thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to enhance the education of yourself and your colleagues. As you will learn through this workshop, sexual health is an incredibly important aspect of individual and community well-being. Unfortunately, though, it often is ignored in the clinical encounter.
You are helping to change that! By presenting this workshop, Achieving the Comfort and Competency to Discuss Your Patients' Sexual Health, you are creating awareness among your peers and providing them with important skills to better address their patients' sexual health.
This workshop has been created as an all-in-one program that can be given over a lunch hour or as a brief evening program. Included are all the materials you will need to successfully deliver this presentation (see below for materials list). However, you should also feel free to expand upon its content, or add components to your presentation, according to your own interests.
Included in this workshop are:
- Achieving the Comfort and Competency to Discuss Your Patients' Sexual Health (PowerPoint Presentation)
- Presenter's guide with slide-by-slide talking points
- Sample sexual history discussion guide (Word document - reproduce for each participant)
- Sample clinical encounters for practicing sexual health discussion skills (Word document - optional)
Please note that while you, or your team, will act as the official presenter(s), it is recommended that you have at least one physician expert present to answer student questions or concerns, and to participate in the role-playing or demonstration activities. These physicians can be family medicine or internal medicine practitioners, obstetricians/gynecologists, or any other physicians with a particular interest in sexual health. For everyone's convenience, please make sure that they are aware of the content and format of the presentation before they commit.
Once again, congratulations for taking the initiative to improve your medical education!