The Southern Center believes educating current and emerging medical professionals is paramount to advancing quality adolescent-centered health care. To date, we have conducted over 125 educational sessions on adolescent health and trained over 3,000 providers and health professional students. We have successfully promoted sexual and reproductive health education across all four years of medical education at LSUHSC.
We train on a various topics central to adolescent health, including:
•Adolescent consent and confidentiality
•Caring for LGBTQIA+ youth
•Adolescent reproductive and sexual health including, sexual history taking and contraception
•Eating disorders
•School-based health care
Examples of recent trainings:
•Caring for LGBTQ Youth- Training Series conducted in partnership with Teen Health Mississippi
•Confidentiality in the Digital Age-Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine lecture
•Adolescent Medicine: What in the world is it and what can they do for my patients?-Lecture for medical professionals conducted by Nurse Coordinator
•AAP- Mum's the Word: Adolescent Consent to Care and Confidentiality
•School Health Lecture-Adolescent Health Guest Panel-Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
•Confidential Adolescent Services - A Tool for Social Justice