Rainbow
Resources
Training College Specific Resources
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RANZCOG Aquire LGBTQIA+ Inclusive Practice Resource
An e-learning module designed specifically for trainees and fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG)
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: RANZCOG members
Time required:
Target Audience: O&G Fellows and Trainees
Aotearoa NZ Resources
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Supporting Aotearoa’s rainbow people: A practical guide for mental health professionals.
A useful booklet resource developed from research that included 1600 rainbow people in Aotearoa NZ. To create this resource, researchers from Victoria University of Wellington’s Youth Wellbeing Study teamed up with RainbowYOUTH, InsideOUT, and Gender Minorities Aotearoa. There are also free posters available on the website that are excellent for display in clinical spaces. Although it is aimed at mental health providers, this is a good introductory resource for any clinician.
Type of content: Written resource
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Everyone
Time required: N/A
Target Audience: Mental Health Professionals -
Warming the Whare for trans people and whanau in perinatal care
A final report that includes findings from both phases of the the Trans Pregnancy Care Project, and guidelines and recommendations for trans-inclusive perinatal care in Aotearoa NZ. Highly recommended for anyone providing care for patients during pregnancy and birth.
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Trans and Gender Diverse
Available to: Everyone
Time required: N/A
Target Audience: Healthcare providers -
TWO Staff – Our Rainbow Communities | Tō Tātou Hapori Kahukura
A brief introductory e-learning session into the rainbow community, with two videos and an assessment.
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Te Whatu Ora/Health NZ Employees
Time required: 30 minutes
Target Audience: Healthcare providers -
TWO Staff - Clinical Competence Working with People with Rainbow Identities
This session can be arranged to be delivered to groups of TWO/Health NZ Staff in person or via Teams. This is a practical session that includes:
- Exploring your own understanding of sexual orientation and gender identity
- Increasing knowledge of rainbow identities and the terminology associated with them
- Understanding of the specific issues facing Rainbow people with AOD issues, including stigma and discrimination
- Increase confidence to relate to people with diverse sexual and gender identities in an empowering and respectful way
Type of content: Workshop and e-learning
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Te Whatu Ora/Health NZ Employees
Time required: 2 hours
Target Audience: Healthcare providers -
Supporting Trans people – Gender Minorities Aotearoa e-learning
This course is designed to increase your knowledge of issues affecting transgender people in Aotearoa, and to build your confidence in speaking about these issues and supporting transgender people. It is a 101 course and suitable for people with any level of knowledge on transgender issues. It takes 2-3 hours total but is broken into 3 sections that can be completed separately.
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Trans and Gender Diverse
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 2-3 hours
Target Audience: Broad audience -
Te Ngākau Kahukura: Intersex Health Webinar 2023
A webinar with Intersex Aotearoa and in partnership with the Council of Medical Colleges and the New Zealand Medical Students Association covering the importance of patient-centred care, with a focus on respect, privacy, and self-determination for Intersex people. Aimed at anyone working in healthcare in Aotearoa.
Type of content: Webinar
Focus topics: Intersex
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 1 hour
Target Audience: Healthcare providers -
Te Ngākau Kahukura: Trans Health Webinar 2023
A webinar with Gender Minorities Aotearoa and in partnership with the Council of Medical Colleges and the New Zealand Medical Students Association covering the importance of patient-centred care, with a focus on respect, privacy, and self-determination for trans and gender diverse people. Aimed at anyone working in healthcare in Aotearoa.
Type of content: Webinar
Focus topics: Trans and Gender Diverse
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 1 hour
Target Audience: Healthcare providers -
Te Ngākau Kahukura: Intersex Health webinar for medical students 2023
In partnership with the New Zealand Medical Students Association, Te Ngākau Kahukura and Intersex Aotearoa share information and research about intersex health and what it means to use a human rights framework in this context. We discuss language, patient-centred care, and access to community support.
Type of content: Webinar
Focus topics: Intersex
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 1 hour
Target Audience: Medical Students
Australian resources
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AusPath E-Learning Module: Trans Primary Care
The overarching purpose is to promote more inclusive and responsive services for trans people in primary health care settings.
This online training module – the first in Australia – has been developed by the University of Melbourne in collaboration with leading clinical and consumer experts in trans health care. It has been endorsed by AusPATH, and is designed for general practitioners, practice nurses and medical students to become familiar with and sensitive to the diverse terminology, experiences, health issues, standards, and referral pathways with respect to trans clients (binary and non-binary).
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Trans and Gender Diverse
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 1 hour
Target Audience: Primary care providers -
AusPath E-Learning Module: Trans Mental Health Care
The “Mental Health Care for Trans, Gender Diverse, and Non-Binary People” module is designed for a range of mental health professionals to become familiar with and sensitive to the diverse terminology, experiences, issues, standards, and referral pathways with respect to trans clients.
The overarching purpose is to promote more inclusive and responsive service provision for trans people in mental health care settings. The module has been developed by the University of Melbourne in collaboration with clinical and consumer experts in the health and wellbeing of the trans community.
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Trans and Gender Diverse
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 1 hour
Target Audience: Mental health workers -
AMSA Queer – Wavelength med course
Wavelength is a free, open access resource on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex health for medical students and health professionals. It covers off key information for clinicians about sexuality, gender, intersex and asexuality, and starts off with an introduction to terminology so is a great course if you want to start with a 101.
You can access a number of lectures, clinical scenarios and quizzes through the Go1 Portal, for free.
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 4-8 hours
Target Audience: Healthcare providers -
LGBTIQ+ Health Australia: Silver Rainbow - Ageing & Aged Care Training
This course has six modules:
- Introduction to LGBTI Inclusion in Aged Care
- Lesbians & Aged Care
- Gay Men & Aged Care
- Bisexual People & Aged Care
- Trans and Gender Diverse People & Aged Care
- Intersex People & Aged Care
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 1 hour per module
Target Audience: People working in Aged care -
LGBTIQ+ Health Australia: LGBTIQ+ Palliative Care
This course has 3 modules: Introduction to LGBTIQ+ Communities: Module 1
Barriers to Providing & Receiving Palliative Care: Module 2
Enablers for LGBTIQ+ people in palliative care: Module 3
Having End-of-Life Planning Conversations: Module 4
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 1 hour per module
Target Audience: People who provide palliative care -
LGBTIQ+ Health Australia: Introduction to LGBTIQ+ Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
This eModule aims to build the capacity of service providers to work with LGBTIQ+ people in relation to their mental health and suicide prevention needs.
OBJECTIVES:
Build participant knowledge around differing mental health rates and trends,
Facilitate understanding of common contributors to negative mental health outcomes, Promote practical strategies that are associated with better mental health outcomes, Encourage participants to adopt key strategies to improve mental health outcomes for LGBTIQ+ people within their own practice.
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 4 hours
Target Audience: Mental health workers -
ASHM & ACON’s Trans and Gender Diverse Sexual Health Care e-learning
The Trans and Gender Diverse Sexual Health Care e-learning has been co-designed and developed for clinicians working in a sexual health clinical setting or delivering sexual health care in primary health care settings.
It consists of five modules:
- Trans and gender diverse community
- Sex and sexual health
- Trans people and reproductive health
- An introduction to gender affirming health care
- Creating safe and inclusive environments
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Trans and Gender Diverse
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 1.5 hours
Target Audience: Sexual health providers -
GPEX: Understanding LGBTIQ e-learning
Understand the different presentations of sexual orientation and biological sex and gender, and the health impacts and discrimination LGBTIQ communities face, so you can work with patients to achieve better health and wellbeing outcomes.
This module is CPD accredited for RACGP and ACRRM.
Type of content: e-learning
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Everyone
Time required: 4 hours
Target Audience: Primary care providers
Curriculum and Service Improvement
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Medical Curriculum Guide for LGBTQIASB+ Health from AMSA Queer and AMSA Gender Equity
This best-practice guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (trans), Queer, Intersex, Asexual and Aromantic, Sistergirl and Brotherboy (LGBTQIASB+) and gender equity education within Australian medical curricula was developed across 2022 and 2023 by the Australian
Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) Queer and AMSA Gender Equity committees, with support from the AMSA National Advocacy team.
Type of content: Written resource
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Everyone
Time required: N/A
Target Audience: Medical Education -
Rainbow Communities Project and Service Improvement Matrix
This project was a 2023 evaluation of how staff in the local Public Health Service in the Greater Wellington Region of Aotearoa NZ worked with rainbow communities. A survey was conducted to understand staff self-assessment of competencies and assesment of the service as a whole. The results from this work were then reviewed by a diverse panel of rainbow health experts. From this work a service improvement matrix was developed which could form a base for other health services wanting to improve the way they work with rainbow communities and imporve cultural safety.
Type of content: Written resource
Focus topics: Rainbow/LGBTQIA+
Available to: Everyone
Time required: N/A
Target Audience: Healthcare providers
