- This event has passed.
SPRUCe | Gender-Affirming Care for Pediatric Patients in Rural Communities
December 11 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Join this free online session, hosted by SPRUCe, with presenters Dr. Ingrid Cosio and Dr. Dan Metzger.
Learning objectives:
- Define gender affirming care for children and youth
- Review evidence-based interventions for gender-diverse children and youth
- Assess and plan for pubertal suppression in gender-diverse or gender questioning pediatric patients
Dr. Ingrid Cosio has been a Family Physician in Prince George for 20 years. She is the Physician Lead for the Northern Gender Clinic, which provides gender affirming care to BC’s Northerners, and she is the Provincial Medical Director of Transcare BC. Dr. Cosio is also co-lead of a local advocacy group called Physicians for Diversity & Inclusion.
Dr. Dan Metzger is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of British Columbia, and a Pediatric Endocrinologist at BC Children’s Hospital. Dr. Metzger and his colleagues—in collaboration with hospital- and community-based mental health professionals—began seeing trans kids in 1998, and they have now seen over a thousand trans and gender-diverse children and youth in the BCCH Gender Clinic, one of the busiest in Canada.
Accreditation statement
The University of British Columbia Division of Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) to provide study credits for continuing medical education for physicians. This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and has been approved by UBC CPD for up to 1.5 MOC Section 1 Group Learning credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity.
