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E-Mail (Boston) Medical education aspires to mitigate bias in future professionals by providing a robust curriculum that includes perspectives and practices for caring for sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTQI) persons. To provide medical schools with a more systematic, uniform approach to teaching these topics in their curriculum, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in 2014 published 30 SGM competencies and topics that curricula should address. However, implementation of these ideals remains challenging. Building off the AAMC s comprehensive resource guide, medical education leaders at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have developed a curriculum assessment tool to efficiently assess whether a medical school adequately incorporates recommended SGM core competencies.