Thursday, March 30, 2023
This activity is intended for urologists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and nurses.
The goal of this activity is to introduce clinicians to the "New View" approach to addressing men's sexual problems.
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
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The preeminent model of men's sexual problems that has developed over the past 30 years (especially after the 1992 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Conference on Impotence[1,2]) emphasizes organic causes of erectile and other sexual function problems and has paved the way for the legendary success of sildenafil (Viagra, Pfizer) and subsequent sexuopharmaceuticals. Numerous continuing education courses have adopted this perspective and emphasized sexual pathophysiology and the value of sexuopharmaceuticals in ameliorating men's sexual problems.
Over the same period, however, evidence has emerged to challenge the salience of this model. The challenges come from a methodologically diverse array of medical and social science studies that emphasize the central role of psychological, relational, and cultural factors in men's sexual expectations and satisfactions and downplay the importance of a universal model of sexual function and satisfaction. The challenges also come from critics concerned about the pharmaceutical industry's overweening role in the medicalization of sexual problems through its influence on sex research, guidelines development, professional education, journal publication practices, and possible "disease-mongering."[3-7] Clinicians interested in a more independent and inclusive approach to understanding, assessing, and treating men's sexual problems can turn to one first developed in 2000 for women by a group of clinicians, sex therapists, and social scientists, called "The New View." A review of this approach is available as a Medscape continuing education course on women's sexual problems.[8]
This course will present the "New View" approach to sexual problems of men and has the following objectives:
This CME/CE Clinical Update is thus organized around 7 major themes:
