I strongly encourage every osteopathic medical student to participate in this landmark study being conducted at Stanford University. The Stanford Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Medical Education Research Group (LGBT MERG) is ready to launch its international study of medical students to identify what is being taught in terms of LGBT-related content in medical schools. Attached is the COSGP Letter of Support with the link to the site.

Here is the URL for the study directly: http://med.stanford.edu/lgbt/lgbtmea/student  This study has been tailored to both allopathic and osteopathic students as well as faculty at all medical schools in the U.S. and Canada. For completeness sake and for the betterment of future physicians' education, I urge all medical students to take the time to fill out this survey.

It is our duty to be as educated as possible to treat all patients that come to see us and this is one small way we can do our part to help our education system evolve to meet today's patients' needs.

With thanks,
Sonbol Shahid-Salles, OMS IV
COSGP National Chair, 2009-2010