The research aims to understand medical student and transgender user perspectives on gender non-conforming healthcare user experiences, and to explore models for successful training opportunities for medical students. Working within a constructivist perspective, this research will conduct focus group interviews with members of the Newcastle Transgender community, in order to understand their experiences of interacting with healthcare providers. This data will then be turned into case study materials that will be incorporated into a training workshop for medical students, enabling them to role-play doctor-patient interactions with Transgender patients. The focus group interviews and data collected during the workshops (participant observation data, survey data and elite interview data), will be analysed to develop a deeper understanding of medical student and transgender user perspectives on gender non-conforming healthcare experiences and to reflect upon the utility of the workshops as a means of enacting cultural change in professional practice, with a particular focus on enhancing contemporary medical pedagogy to become more trans-inclusionary.
