Educational intervention to improve pharmacist knowledge to provide care for transgender patients.

Jurynelliz Rosa-Vega Edgar Carlo Andrés Rodríguez-Ochoa Jonathan Hernández-Agosto Darlene Santiago Damián Cabrera-Candelaria Carlos E Rodríguez-Díaz Kyle R Melin

Published in: Pharmacy practice (2020)

Pharmacists benefited from a three-hour continuing education course with an increase in knowledge regarding transgender patient care and hormone therapy for gender affirmation. As this study only evaluated the effect in short term memory, further studies are needed to assess long term impact of the continuing education course on transgender care knowledge.

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