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ForwardPulse: The Art of Affirmation: Gender Affirming Care in Adolescents_enduring
New medications and new guidelines are constantly being released. Pharmacists need a mechanism to keep up with these new medications and guidelines.
Gender dysphoria has been shown to negatively affect the mental health of adolescents, and access to gender affirming care may decrease rates of depression and anxiety. This presentation aims to enhance pharmacists’ skills in supporting transgender adolescents and ensuring appropriateness of medications for gender affirming care.
Target Audience
Pharmacist
Learning Objectives
1. Describe gender dysphoria and its impact on adolescents
2. Recognize appropriate treatment options for gender affirming care in transgender adolescents, including age of initiation
3. Discuss outcomes related to providing appropriate and adequate gender affirming care to transgender adolescents
Additional Information
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New medications and new guidelines are constantly being released. Pharmacists need a mechanism to keep up with these new medications and guidelines.
Gender dysphoria has been shown to negatively affect the mental health of adolescents, and access to gender affirming care may decrease rates of depression and anxiety. This presentation aims to enhance pharmacists’ skills in supporting transgender adolescents and ensuring appropriateness of medications for gender affirming care.
Paige Dorve-Lewis, PharmD
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 1.0 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE PharmacyThe UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.