Sex & Medicine Week 2012 Information Center!

by: simw - February 7th, 2012   Filed under: 2012 Add Comment
  • Monday, Feb 13th, Carrel 5G at 1 pm
  • Everything You Won’t Learn About Abortion and Contraception In Med School
  • Discussion + Hands-on Papaya Aspiration (RSVP for workshop)
  • Speaker: Dr. Linda Prine
  • sponsored by Med Students For Choice
  • Linda Prine, M.D. is a family physician at the Institute for Family Health, a network of 17 health centers from lower Manhattan to Mid-Hudson, where she is the Director of Women’s Health.   She is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. Prine is also on the staff of Planned Parenthood, New York City where she teaches family medicine residents to perform abortions. She graduated from Cornell University Medical College and did her residency training at Montefiore Medical Center. With colleagues, she helped found the Reproductive Health Access Project (RHAP) and the Center for Reproductive Health Education in Family Medicine, both are programs dedicated to expanding access to reproductive health care, including abortion, through family medicine.

 She will lead a discussion about “everything you won’t learn in medical school about abortion and contraception”, followed by a hands-on workshop learning what the abortion procedure is by doing it on a papaya.

  • Tuesday, Feb 14th, Classroom 1B at 12 pm
  • Health and Sexuality In the Caribbean
  • Speakers: Dr. Ramotse Saunders, Dr. Tanya Zangaglia, Marvelle Maloney MS2, sponsored by Family Medicine Club

All Downstate students get to work with the Caribbean community served by Kings County. But how do you approach a Caribbean patient about their personal and intimacy issues? Not sure? Well, come on Valentine’s Day, during free hour, to listen to a panel of members of the Caribbean community, to find out!

  • Tuesday, Feb 14th, Student Center Main Lounge at 4:30 pm
  • Rape Crisis Counseling and the SAFE Exam
  • Speakers: Barbara Schnoor, RN, CNM, NYSAFE and David Saphier
  • sponsored by Emergency Medicine/Wilderness Medicine Club

Barbara Schnoor RN, CNM, NYSAFE  has worked as a midwife in various settings in NYC and NJ since graduating in 1979 from SUNY-Downstate’s midwifery program.  For the last nine years she has been a SAFE (sexual assault forensic examiner) with the Crime Victims Treatment Center of St.Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan, where she is the SAFE Clinical Manager. Her talk will focus on compassionate medical care for victims of sexual assault seen in the emergency department, as well as the NYS-DOH SAFE program.

  • Wednesday, Feb 15th, Faculty Lounge 8th fl HSEB at 12 pm
  • Exploring Paraphilias
  • Speaker: Dr. Meg Kaplan
  • sponsored by Psychiatry Club

Dr. Meg Kaplan will speak about paraphilias. What are they? How can we as medical professionals treat patients with paraphilias respectfully and appropriately?

  • Thursday, Feb 16th, Student Center Main Lounge at 12 pm
  • Towards Gender Equality in Medicine: 50 Years of Experience, Struggle and Vision
  • Speaker: Michael Wilson, MA
  • sponsored by AMSA

A lot has changed since women came into medicine in the 1960s, and a lot has stayed the same.  Join healthcare professionals and students of both genders for a candid lunchtime conversation about victories, defeats, and the possibility of gender equality in medicine.  The conversation will begin with stories from your colleague’s lives and then open into a discussion facilitated by community-based theatre artist Michael Wilson. Your voice is needed.

Friday, Feb 17th, Lecture Hall 1A at 12 pm
Improving Transgender Healthcare
Speaker: Nathan Levitt, RN
sponsored by LGBT club

Transgender people face many barriers within healthcare, including discrimination, ignorance and fear. The lack of informed care, sensitive language, research and education prevents access to competent care and screening. This workshop will explore ways to improve transgender health education in schools with curriculum ideas and case studies, as well as ways to integrate transgender informed health care in hospitals, health centers and social service organizations. As the “T” often gets grouped in with the “LGB” without necessary understanding and resources,

this workshop will help participants understand how patients are affected by transphobia in healthcare settings and what you can do as healthcare providers. We will look at interventions for the many barriers to care the transgender community face.