Events
Voter Registration & NO on Prop 8 Campaign
This year medGLO will hold several on-campus registration drives, along with NO on Prop 8 programming to get students geared up for the critical Nov 4th election.
LGBT Health Intro Talks
What does LGBTQIA mean? Kinsey scale? GayDar? What's the deal with gay men and crystal meth? Are lesbians more at risk for breast cancer? Introductory lunchtime talks by USC physicians, including Dr. Dennis Holmes, Breast Surgeon at USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, introduce students to LGBTI health issues in America. Intro talks cover issues affecting the LGBTI community in general, as well as specific issues that disproportionately affect specific groups. These talks are geared toward future physicians, regardless of orientation and identity. Last year's webcast is available here and slides here.
National Coming Out & Ally Day
To increase awareness about coming out as a person in medicine and to celebrate National Coming Out Day, we host a Coming Out & Ally Day Celebration at the Keck School of Medicine in mid-October. Held on the Quad during lunchtime, we play music, feed attendees In N Out Burger (and grilled cheese!), hand out pins and buttons, post an HSC OUTlist, and host tables on LGBT health information. We also invite community groups to have their own tables. In solidarity, students are asked to wear rainbow ribbon pins (distributed to each student's MDL box) to show support for LGBT providers and patients. Students wearing their pins receive a free drink on the day of the event.
AIDS Walk Los Angeles
Along with Keck AMSA, students raise funds and spend a morning exercising in West Hollywood for this important cause.
LGBTI Families
We'll learn about the needs of parents and children from some unique families.
HIV Test Counseling Panel
Cathy Olufs, Education Director at the Center for Health Justice and a panel of HIV positive counselors discuss effective and professional HIV test counseling, share their personal experiences with HIV diagnosis, and answer audience questions pertaining to this tricky and intimidating topic.
Transgender Talks
Transgender Talks is a 2-day Spring event in which all students are invited to learn about the field of transgender health. Speakers include Dr. Maddie Deutsch, an emergency medicine physician, and Jessie Jacobson, a psychotherapist, who candidly share their knowledge and stories of being transgendered and working in the medical and health professions. Discussions include how we as future health care providers can better serve the transgendered population. The first session is an introductory lecture that discusses the basic issues that transgender individuals face in our health care system and the second day is an open forum discussion in which students ask questions to our guests.