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Transgender Health for the Rehab Professional:

Genital Gender Affirming Surgery Considerations - Remote Course

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Price: $500
Beginner: Beginner
Contact Hours: 15.5

This continuing education course is appropriate for any physical rehabilitation professional. The primary focus will be genital gender-affirming surgeries, including vaginoplasty, phalloplasty, and metoidioplasty. Considerations for the experience of transgender people in societal and medical context will be woven through the course.

Topics covered include healing and functional outcomes of genital gender affirming surgeries including urinary, bowel, pain, and sexual function, as well as societal influence on gender transition, including interactions with health care providers. Health effects of hormones for gender affirmation as related to differential diagnosis in rehabilitation will also be covered, along with supporting healing after surgery.

The course consists of pre-course learning, followed by one-day of live instruction via Zoom. Links to external supplementary material will be provided. 

Prerequisites: None. This is a beginning-level course. 

Audience: This continuing education course is targeted to any physical rehabiltation professional. Content is not intended for use outside the scope of the learner's license or regulation.

Pre-Course Learning: All pre-recorded lectures in Teachable for this course must be watched before the Live Component of the course. See the Schedule tab for the current list of pre-recorded videos

Upon completion of this course, participants wil be able to:

  1. Provide safe, effective care for people undergoing genital gender affirmation metoidioplasty
  2. Provide safe, effective care for people undergoing genital gender affirmation Phalloplasty
  3. Provide safe, effective care for people undergoing genital gender affirmation vaginoplasty

NOTE: Times below are listed in Pacific time zone
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Before the Course Begins
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These video lectures in Teachable must
be viewed in-full prior to the course
Total video lecture time: 7 hours, 50 min

1) Introduction (10 min)
2) Cultivating a Gender Affirming Clinical Practice (45 min)
3) Gender Examination Considerations: Differential Diagnosis (56 mins)
4) Considerations for Treating Pain in TGD People (58 mins)
5) Supporting Tissue Healing (63 min)
6) Non-surgical pelvic case scenarios for TGD patients (48 min)
7) Prehabilitation for Gender-Affirming Genital Surgery (51 min)
8) Phalloplasty complex cases (74 min)
9) Long term Consideration Bladder Bowel and Nerve Injury(62 min)

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Day of the Course
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6:30 am PST - Zoom opens 30 mins before course for registration and setup
7:00 am PST - Course begins / Intro background questions from pre-course portion
7:30 - Genital Gender-Affirming Surgical (GGAS) Procedures
-- Masculinizing
-- Metoidioplasty
-- Phalloplasty
-- Scrotoplasty
8:00 - Rehabilitation for metoidioplasty
8:45 - Break
9:00 - Rehabilitation for Phalloplasty
-- Early post-operative considerations
-- Intermediate postoperative considerations
10:00 - Phalloplasty long term case and Sensory Protocol
10:30 - Genital Gender-Affirming Surgical (GGAS) Procedures
-- Feminizing
-- Orchiectomy
-- Vulvoplasty
-- Vaginoplasty
11:10 - Lunch
12:10 - Rehabilitation for Vaginoplasty- Early post-operative considerations and manual therapy
12:40 - Rehabilitation for Vaginoplasty
-- Dilation
1:10 - Long term Consideration Canal and Vulva
2:00 - Break
2:15 - Long term Consideration Sexual Function
3:00 - Graded Motor Imagery
3:45 - Closing remarks, questions, wrap-up
4:00 - Adjourn

"It was a very informative course. Definitely prepared me to see Transgender population."
Iram Fatima Shah, PT, DPT, CLT-LANA | Transgender Health for the Rehab Professional - April 13 2024

"The instructors were generous and encouraging in responding to each participant's question. We, as a group, seemed to have many, which is reflective of the material needed to be learned (thank you for offering the course) and instructors creating a safe learning environment. Both Sandy and Ken are solid in their knowledge and humble and transparent in their presentation. Both emphasized and encouraged a growth mindset and open approach to working with the continuum of genders we might see in our clinics. Ken continued to gently remind participants about social and economic intersections that may affect folks undergoing gender-affirming intervention: a vital consideration when working with any population, but/and a bit more empathy for folks who have likely faced some level of disparity is essential."
Sonya Richardson, PT, DPT, GCS | Transgender Health for the Rehab Professional - August 17 2024