Gaines Blasdel
Biographic Data
| ID | 8306820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gaines Blasdel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gaines |
| FAMILY NAME | Blasdel |
| SIGNATURE | BLASDEL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5431-6540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
‘I Would Feel Failed By the Medical Community Entirely’
BACKGROUND: Gender-affirming care (GAC) improves the mental health, quality of life, and social functioning of gender-diverse patients. In spite of this, GAC in the United States (as elsewhere) has become a major focus of debate, with several federal policy changes enacted through Executive Orders and legislation creating major restrictions on transgender (trans) Americans' ability to obtain the care they need. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to understand h…
Should BMI Help Determine Gender-Affirming Surgery Candidacy
Use of body mass index (BMI) as a health care metric is controversial, especially in candidacy assessments for gender-affirming surgery. When considering experiences of fat trans individuals, it is important to advocate for equitable divisions of responsibility for and recognition of systemic fat phobia. This commentary on a case suggests strategies for increasing equitable access to safe surgery for all body types. If surgeons use BMI thresholds…
How Should Surgeons Approach Gender-Affirming Surgery Revisions When Patients Were Not, Perhaps, Well Informed in Prior Counseling
Surgeons often encounter patients with realistic goals yet who desire unrealistic means of achieving them. This tension is compounded when surgeons consult with patients eager to revise a prior gender-affirming procedure completed by another surgeon. Two key factors of ethical and clinical relevance are that (1) a consulting surgeon's job is complicated when a population-specific evidence base is lacking and (2) a patient's marginalization is exa…
How Do OSCE Cases Activate Learners About Transgender Health
PURPOSE: To describe the effect of transgender health-related objective structured clinical examination (THOSCE) case exposure on learner activation regarding gender-affirming care. METHOD: A modified grounded theory approach was applied to identify the educational value of THOSCE cases. Focus groups with current and former primary care internal medicine residents who participated in THOSCE cases were conducted in 2018-2019. Transcripts were anal…
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How Do OSCE Cases Activate Learners About Transgender Health
PURPOSE: To describe the effect of transgender health-related objective structured clinical examination (THOSCE) case exposure on learner activation regarding gender-affirming care. METHOD: A modified grounded theory approach was applied to identify the educational value of THOSCE cases. Focus groups with current and former primary care internal medicine residents who participated in THOSCE cases were conducted in 2018-2019. Transcripts were anal…
Should BMI Help Determine Gender-Affirming Surgery Candidacy
Use of body mass index (BMI) as a health care metric is controversial, especially in candidacy assessments for gender-affirming surgery. When considering experiences of fat trans individuals, it is important to advocate for equitable divisions of responsibility for and recognition of systemic fat phobia. This commentary on a case suggests strategies for increasing equitable access to safe surgery for all body types. If surgeons use BMI thresholds…
How Should Surgeons Approach Gender-Affirming Surgery Revisions When Patients Were Not, Perhaps, Well Informed in Prior Counseling
Surgeons often encounter patients with realistic goals yet who desire unrealistic means of achieving them. This tension is compounded when surgeons consult with patients eager to revise a prior gender-affirming procedure completed by another surgeon. Two key factors of ethical and clinical relevance are that (1) a consulting surgeon's job is complicated when a population-specific evidence base is lacking and (2) a patient's marginalization is exa…
‘I Would Feel Failed By the Medical Community Entirely’
BACKGROUND: Gender-affirming care (GAC) improves the mental health, quality of life, and social functioning of gender-diverse patients. In spite of this, GAC in the United States (as elsewhere) has become a major focus of debate, with several federal policy changes enacted through Executive Orders and legislation creating major restrictions on transgender (trans) Americans' ability to obtain the care they need. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to understand h…
Medicine (3 works) · Diversity and Career in Medicine (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sex and Gender in Healthcare (2 works) · Transgender (2 works)