Jennifer Romanello and Olivia Negris, senior medical students at Rush Medical School in Chicago, discussed a recent meeting and paper produced by the Medical Student Forum. This is a group of medical students from the Chicago area medical schools and beyond, who are interested in learning about sexual medicine. We discussed the lack of training in sexual medicine by the medical education system and what they are doing to change this situation.

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Today Dr Sara Yunghans will take us through a simulation of taking a sexual history with a standardized patient. This podcast is intended to be a follow up to podcast #38, “Best practices for taking a sexual history”. Dr Yunghans is a pelvic floor physical therapist who is a graduate of the Sexual Health Certificate Program through University of Michigan. She demonstrates that a sexual history can be done quickly during a patient interview.

We will be taking a short break to re-work Sex Ed for Sex Med. We plan to return in March 2024.

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We are talking to Anna Myers CNP about pelvic organ prolapse and personal lubricants. Anna is in a urologic pelvic medicine practice and is a certified sex counsellor and a part of the female sexual medicine team at University Hospitals in Cleveland. These 2 subjects are important topics as they effect so many women at the midlife. Both are essential to the discussion of sexual health.

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Dr Sharon Parish discuss some of her work in sexual medicine education for the student and/or the practitioner. She has co-authored several articles that we review to give the listener an understanding of key issues for discussing sexual health with a patient. The how to ask and what to ask is covered. This is an important episode as sexual medicine education in medical schools is scant but getting a sexual history is crucial to a comprehensive medical history.

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Please join me for this entertaining discussion with Dr Lauren Streicher, an international expert in menopause and sexual medicine. We discussed her landmark paper on dyspareunia in menopause, as well as orgasm dysfunction in the menopause. We also discussed her favorite examples of misinformation about menopause. A subject extensively covered at the annual meeting of The Menopause Society

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This episode, I am doing a recap of some of the main discussions that we heard at the annual meeting for the menopause Society. Studies show that female sexual dysfunction is most frequent at the midline. The entire scientific program can be found at the menopause society’s website, menopause.org, under annual meetings. One can order the recordings of this magnificent meeting at nams.OnDemand.org. There was new information presented that is important for anyone taking care of women.

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We are talking to Dr. Erica Kelly about several complex sexual health cases involving recent emotional trauma. She reviews several cases that required multiple specialists to help resolve. She explains how she deals with the psychologic trauma after the physical injury is corrected. It is a great example of how one should use The Biopsychosocial Model to evaluate and manage complex sexual health issues.

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There are many factors in the postpartum period including breastfeeding that can affect sexual functioning. Theresa Dible NP discusses how to support new mothers who want to breastfeed but have a low desire for sexual activity. She explains how breastfeeding and other factors can play a role in low desire. She then outlines detailed management of symptoms so as to help patients enjoy a rewarding postpartum period.

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Today, we are focusing on cultural competence and sexual health. Those of us with little exposure to cultures and cultural practices outside our own can be quite challenged when talking to those patients. We are talking with Dr. Rachel Pope, from the dept of Urology at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She has worked extensively in Southern Africa, helping women with extensive childbirth injuries. She explains how she approaches talking to women with cultural practices like clitoral cutting.

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Theresa Dible discusses weight loss and poor body image this week. It is well documented that poor body image can have an impact on hypoactive sexual desire disorder. She explains that helping patients be more confident about themselves can involve weight loss. She includes all the steps to make that happen, including the use of weight loss meds. She goes over all the anti-obesity meds and how to use them.

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