Groups & Initiatives
Men's Health
Dedicated required teaching of men’s health is lacking in most medical school and family medicine curricula. Current LCME guidelines do not mandate any descriptive men’s health or even urology/andrology teaching in US medical schools; specific urology rotations are available in all US medical schools (mostly in the form of sub-internship electives) but are not required clinical rotations. During the standard three-year family medicine residency training program, the ACGME stipulates that residents “must have adequately structured, hands-on educational experiences in the following subspecialty areas: otorhinolaryngology (to include oral health), urology, and ophthalmology”, yet the details of this provision are extremely vague and without defined competency-based goals and objectives. Nonetheless, unlike it’s counterpart women’s health, men’s health does not exist as an identifiable subspecialty in medicine.
The Group on Men’s Health will stimulate enthusiasm for curriculum development and improve upon medical student and family medicine resident knowledge in the various medical subtopics related to men’s health. Moreover, the concept of “men’s health” is not universally accepted as a discrete clinical niche, but is one that should be housed within the domains of family medicine given our expertise ranging from primary care within the biopsychosocial model throughout the lifecycle, up to and including specialized procedural training.
Group Goals
- To increase awareness of the need to address various men’s health issues through a multi-disciplinary approach within the biopsychosocial model
- To develop a standardized curriculum for men’s health encompassing preventive medicine, primary care urology, andrology, cardiology, family planning, motivational interviewing skills to decrease morbidity and mortality due to chronic diseases, and all pertinent subtopics relative to the male health and gender
- To increase competency in these subject areas, as well as level of comfort in performing male genitourinary and prostate examinations, for both medical students and family medicine residents
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