Welcome to this new episode of More Than Medical Students!
Today I am excited to be joined by Delia, Delia is a first year medical student and a LGBTQIA+ advocate and activist. This is such a great episode where we discuss really important topics such as discrimination and health inequalities towards members of the LGBTQIA+ community and our lack of teaching and training around this at Medical School.
Delia shares with us her story of finding their own identity and belonging to the LGBTQIA+ community and their decision to study medicine and strive to improve the medical space for patients of her community.
Before Med School Delia also undertook research in transgender patients with cancer and their lived experiences. They also founded an impactful society in their college to help improve the LGBTQ students accessing healthcare on the college campus and they share tips with us on how to start an impactful project locally.
Delia is now an advocate and activist both on social media and formal policy advocacy on a wider level and I really admire their work.
We also discussed Delia’s experience of studying sociology and how that understanding helps understand healthcare and the individual’s experience of healthcare, which I personally found so interesting as well.
Go listen to the episode now and let us know how you find it!
Finding our guest:
Instagram @Enby.Delia
YouTube @Transdocintraining
Mentioned in this episode:
Instagram accounts to follow in healthcare:
@doctor.ej Emergency physician in Chicago
@thecurlymed OBGYN resident
@queersurgeon Plastic surgeon
Book recommendations:
This book is gay, Juno Dawson
What's the T?, Juno Dawson
