Ensure scientific text on LGBTQ: NMCto colleges
Tribune News Service
Faridkot, October 14
The National Medical Commission (NMC) has directed all medical institutions to amend the information about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, virginity and homosexual in their textbooks.
The NMC said it had been noted that various textbooks of medical education, mainly forensic medicine and toxicology and psychiatry subjects, contained unscientific information about the LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, homosexual etc) community and also had derogatory remarks about them.
The NMCissued a related letter today, suggesting all medical universities, colleges and institutions teaching MBBS, MD/MS and super-specialty students to amend the information.
The commission said whenever any issue of gender or similar kind arose, the mention of clinical history or complaints or signs/symptoms, examination findings or history about nomenclature shall not be taught in such a way that it became and was perceived in any way derogatory, discriminatory or insulting to the LGBTQIA+ community.
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