Weichen Ling, an Ed.D. student in EPOL, is part of a team from Stanford Medicine that has developed training for medical students on gender-affirming care.
Teaching Gender-Affirming Care: A Case-based Simulation to Improve Transgender Health Outcomes is a nationally CME-accredited, globally accessible online course that provides over three hours of immersive, case-based training with simulated transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) patients.
Learners engage in 18 unique clinical encounters across eight simulated patients, making real-time decisions to optimize hormone therapy, counsel patients around surgical affirmation, navigate care considerations for TGD adolescents, and more. Grounded in evidence-based practices and informed by the lived experiences of TGD individuals, the course addresses a critical gap in medical education by offering accessible, free, online training in gender-affirming communication and care.
The project has been endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign and was a finalist for the 2025 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award in Higher Education.
