This first-of-its-kind textbook marks a revolutionary effort to reform medical education nationally by providing a comprehensive, high-quality resource to serve as a foundation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) health education across multiple disciplines. Addressing the decades-long unequal weight of medical education generally offered about the care of LGBTQ people, The Equal Curriculum was created to advance clinicians' competencies in optimizing the health of LGBTQ people. This textbook is designed to be integrated into health sciences curricula and offers pointed strategies to evaluate the integration of LGBTQ health topics. Starting with a brief overview, chapters 1 through 4 cover general content that is highly relevant to all health professionals working with LGBTQ people. Chapters 5 through 12 focus on specific patient populations and clinical specialties, and chapters 13 and 14 cover special topics. Key points in each chapter are highlighted to aid in the comprehension, and case vignettes are provided throughout the textbook, allowing learners to apply the content to clinical scenarios in order to evaluate how the application of relevant knowledge may impact health outcomes. Questions similar to National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) style are provided in most chapters to assist in the application of content. As major addition to the clinical literature, The Equal Curriculum: Student and Educator Guide to LGBTQ Health should be of great interest to health sciences instructors, medical students in their preclinical and clinical phases, and trainees from other disciplines, such as physician assistants, nurses, social workers, and public health professionals.

Section I: Foundational Sociological, Health Disparities, Health Research, and Medicolegal Concepts for the LGBT Community.- Chapter 1: Language and History of LGBT People

Chapter 2: LGBT Health Disparities.- Section II: Interdisciplinary Approach to Care for LGBT People.- Chapter 3: The LGBT-Friendly Care Encounter
Chapter 4: Interdisciplinary Approach to Care
Chapter 5: Screening and Prevention
Section III: Clinical Care of the LGBT Community.- Chapter 6: Child and Adolescent Medicine
Chapter 7: Adult Primary Care
Chapter 8: Sexual Health
Chapter 9: Transgender Health
Chapter 10: Emergency Medicine
Chapter 11: HIV/AIDS
Chapter 12: Psychiatry and Neurology
Section IV: Emerging Topics in LGBT Health.- Chapter 13: Data Collection and Research
Chapter 14: Topics in Global LGBT Health.- Appendices.