LGBTQ Cultural Competency for Healthcare Professionals - 5/28/2025
Course Overview
This course will provide instruction on cultural competency and specialized clinical training focusing on patients who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, gender nonconforming, queer, or question their sexual orientation or gender identity and expression (“LGBTQ”). The instruction will provide information and skills to enable a health professional to care effectively and respectfully for patients who identify as LGBTQ.
Learning Outcomes
Upon the completion of this course, the learner should be able to:
- Define culturally relevant terminology that demonstrates cultural sensitivity and understanding.
- Describe intersectionality and the impact of intersecting systems of discrimination and oppression on emotional, physical and social well-being.
- Identify risk factors, health disparities, and strategies for minimization.
- Identify legal obligations related to treating patients.
- Describe guidelines and best practices for data storage, including appropriate collection, use, storing of sexual orientation and gender identify information.
- Identify personal and cultural biases to challenge or correct within a culturally competent practice.
- Discuss ways to engage and train support staff.
About the Author/Presenter
Julie Wallin Culligan, PhD, FAIHM, MEd, NBC-HWC, CYT-200, is a Psychologist and Whole Health Program Director at the James H. Quillen VA Medical Center, as well as Assistant Clinical Professor at the Quillen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine. She served the Veterans Health Administration Office of Patient Centered Care & Cultural Transformation as both the National Champion for Whole Health Coaching, acting as the national field advisor for health coaching, and Whole Health National Education Champion. Dr. Culligan completed a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine from t