The Conference Began as a Way for One Med Student to Educate Peers ...
Before officially known as "Doctor," Cham Sante was witness to the experience of a lifelong friend, who, because they were a transgender person, suffered discrimination across several aspects of life. Cham was especially struck to learn that even the medical profession was a source of fear in this person's life, "causing the friend not to seek necessary medical treatment for illness and injury. Later, when Ms. Sante was working in an emergency room, she saw health care workers openly mock transgender patients, treating them like “sideshows." As a student at the *Commonwealth Medical College in Scranton, Sante made it a goal that medical students and the broader community should have an understanding and awareness of transgender people — those who identify with a gender other than the one they were born with" (Falchek, David. TCMC student's commitment leads to transgender conference. Scranton, 15 March 2015. Web.).
* Formerly TCMC, The Commonwealth Medical College, is now known as Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, GCSOM.
* Formerly TCMC, The Commonwealth Medical College, is now known as Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, GCSOM.
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About Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine (Geisinger Commonwealth) offers a community-based model of undergraduate medical education with campuses in Scranton, Danville, Sayre and Wilkes-Barre. The school’s innovative Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree curriculum, focused on caring for people in the context of their lives and their community, attracts the next generation of physicians and scientists from within its region, as well as from across Pennsylvania and the nation. In addition to the MD program, Geisinger Commonwealth offers a master’s degree in biomedical sciences in both Scranton and Doylestown. The school also has more than 440 trainees in 24 graduate medical education programs and offers 19 accredited fellowships from addiction medicine to vascular surgery. Geisinger Commonwealth is committed to non-discrimination in all employment and educational opportunities.