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LGBTIQA+ inclusive healthcare protocols and environments
LGBTIQA+ inclusive healthcare protocols and environments
Overview
This micro-credential provides methodological and operational tools to analyze, intervene in, and transform environments, creating inclusive spaces and protocols for the LGBTIQA+ community. It allows the application of the theoretical foundations of the common module to practical actions, especially in the evaluation and improvement of healthcare for transgender people, ensuring respectful and accessible environments.
- To acquire the precise methodological and operational tools for the rigorous analysis of existing environments and the subsequent intervention and transformation of them, in order to generate genuinely inclusive spaces and protocols for the LGBTIQA+ community.
- To serve as a bridge to translate the conceptual foundations of the common module into concrete and practical actions within the training itinerary, ensuring that staff apply theoretical knowledge in the generation of inclusion solutions.
- To put into practice the specialized information on the care needs and health barriers faced by trans people, ensuring that staff are able to assess and transform care environments to be respectful and accessible to this specific population.
Students must be between 25 and 64 years old on the date the training begins.
A university degree is not required to access this micro-credential. However, students wishing to access it must meet the following access requirements:
- Baccalaureate.
- Higher vocational training cycle (senior technician).
Academic program
- Competent transgender healthcare
- Current status of healthcare protocols in the various regional health services
- Safe and inclusive spaces.
- Neutral language and LGBTQIA+ inclusive language
- Theoretical classes: expository, explanatory or demonstration sessions of the contents and knowledge.
- Independent work: independent and self-regulated activity of the student based on the documentation and guidelines proposed in the subject, preparation of classes and exams, preparation of final reports, internship reports…
- Tutoring (individual, group…): activity in which the teaching staff attends to, facilitates and guides one or more students in the training process.
- Assessment: continuous assessment tests and final exams. Tests may be in person or online, and may be written, oral, or consist of practical exercises.
The methodology will be as follows:
- Lectures/expository method: presentation or explanation by the teaching staff.
- Assessment: written tests, oral tests, practical tests, …
- Tutoring: instruction period in which teachers and students interact with the aim of reviewing and discussing materials and topics presented in class.
- Active methodologies: cooperative learning, project-based learning, flipped classroom, service learning, game-based learning, case studies, problem-solving…
They are aimed at making learning a participatory process and are based on the leading role of the students.
- Objective tests (true/false, multiple choice, test-type, fill-in-the-blank, ordering, etc.): These are measurement instruments that allow for the evaluation of knowledge, skills, performance, aptitudes, etc. The answers are closed-ended, thus promoting objectivity during the scoring process.
- Case studies, exercises and problems: tests in which students must solve, in a reasoned manner, within a certain time, and according to the established criteria, the cases, exercises or problems posed by the teaching staff, with the aim of applying the knowledge acquired.
General information
Credits: 3 ECTS
Duration: 16/03/2026 – 29/05/2026
Teaching modality: Virtual
Location: Virtual classroom
Valued at: €108.75
The cost of tuition for this Microcredential will be subsidized by the 'Plan for the development of university microcredentials', investment 6 of component 21 of the Addendum to the 'Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan', financed by the European Union – Next Generation EU, year 2025.
Short courses available in various formats (in-person, online, or hybrid). Ideal for learning without interrupting your professional life.
Content created and delivered by professionals and experts in the field, designed for immediate application.
Endorsed by the University of La Laguna. You will receive an official ECTS certificate, valid in the European Higher Education Area.
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