ELABORATION OF A CURRICULAR COMPONENT ON THE HEALTH OF THE LGBT POPULATION IN A MEDICINE UNDERGRADUATION COURSE
transgender persons; health services; travestism; medical education; sexual minorities
The discussion about gender identity, sexual orientation and especially regarding LGBTTI health care is still largely neglected in the pedagogical project of undergraduate courses in health areas. It is known that this public has peculiarities and special demands as users of the SUS that permeate between the inequities found in access to official health services to the characteristics of this population, such as the difficulty of social and family support. For this medical-society relationship to be established in a salutary and harmonious way, the need for a training focused on humanized attention and the deep study of characteristics and special demands of this public, in order to promote a better understanding of the same, being a conducive strategy for the development of conduits that promote and ensure more effective and effective access of health services to the population in question. Therefore, it is necessary to incorporate the LGBTTI theme in the pedagogical projects of Medicine courses as a way of knowing, understanding and debating the issues inherent to the LGBTTI patient. Therefore, in order for SUS users belonging to social groups considered as sexual minorities to have quality assistance and adequate to their specificities, it is urgent that health education institutions are aligned with an attitude of acceptance and, above all, of dedication On the part of its curricular components to the promotion of construction, by the students and structuring teaching nucleus, of knowledge, abilities and, mainly, attitudes that favor the decent attendance of this population.