More Menopause-Focused Education Required for Doctors- YES PLEASE! - Ellen Dolgen

More Menopause-Focused Education Required for Doctors- YES PLEASE!

Despite the fact that nearly two million women every year reach menopause (that’s equivalent to 6,000 women each day), many experts agree that OB/GYN residents are not being properly prepared to address menopause-related health issues. A new study published online in Menopause, the journal of The North American Menopause Society (NAMS), however, demonstrates how adding a menopause-focused curriculum is helping residents to meet this growing challenge.

The study comes out of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where they created a two-year curriculum including lectures and labs focused on menopause and related health issues.  Between 2011 and 2013, 34 OB/GYN residents completed the menopause curriculum annually.  Prior to attending the menopause sessions, a majority of residents—78.7%–did not feel comfortable managing menopause patients.  After the two-year curriculum, a whopping 85.7% reported feeling “comfortable/very comfortable” taking care of menopause patients.

“This is a huge challenge in the medical profession,” says Dr. Wulf Utian, executive director of NAMS.  “There is a tremendous void in healthcare providers understanding the key issues being faced by pre- and post-menopausal women.  As a result, many women are not getting the treatment they need and are suffering needlessly with an array of menopause-related symptoms.  Although this was a small study sample, it provides valuable insight as to the need to provide additional menopause-focused education, and I hope that medical schools, as well as residency programs in OB/GYN, internal medicine and family practice use it as a justification to augment their current curriculums.”

The article, “Effectiveness of a 2-year menopause medicine curriculum for obstetrics and gynecology residents,” will be published in the March 2016 print edition of Menopause.

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