Last night was the first meeting of the newly formed Queers and Allies student group at National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM).
We are working towards creating awareness of queer health issues in the alternative medicine community. The meeting was good, and though I had to leave early there were some good things accomplished just in the hour I was there.
In addition to supporting LGBT medical students by providing a supportive educational environment, NCNM Queers and Allies also advocates for LGBT patients in the larger community by supporting the inclusion of queer health issues in medical school curricula and improving the quality of patient care through physician sensitivity. In another few years, the founding students of this group will be practicing Naturopathic physicians whose patient care goals center around holistic healthcare with awareness of and concern for the LGBT community.
