San Diego Sexual Medicine is pleased to offer preceptorships with the opportunity to shadow and work along side our world-renowned doctors and clinicians including Irwin Goldstein, MD, Julea Minton, NP-C and Catherine Gagnon, FNP-BC. This experience may include office interviews, exam room testing and possibly surgical intervention. In between patients you will be offerered mini-lectures by Dr. Goldstein to provide you with information through deidentified patient scenarios and photographs to further your learning experience.  You will also be able to speak with our sex therapist, Rose Hartzell. PhD, EdS, CHES, LMFT, however you will not be able to sit in on her sesssions with patients.

We see men with low sexual desire, erectile dysfunction, orgasmic disorders, ejaculatory disorders, penile pain, penile curvature, hypogonadism and PGAD. We see women with low sexual desire, arousal disorders, orgasmic disorders, sexual pain, hormone management and PGAD. Our patients have an opportunity to work with a physician and/or nurse practitiner, a sex therapist and a physical therapist if warranted, so you will be able to see how a multi-disciplinary practice functions.

For those interested, your preceptorship may include discussions with our business manager about coding, fees or equipment and our program coordinator about educational programs, marketing your sexual medicine practice and clinical research. In addition, we look forward to maintaining a relationship with you to discuss any concerns or issues that may arise in the future regarding patient diagnosis and/or management.

If you are interested in learning more about our preceptorships, the cost, and scheduling, please contact Sue Goldstein, at suewgoldstein@gmail.com. For those new to the field, we recommend a course in FSD before your preceptorship to maximize your learning, offered by ISSWSH, NPWH or AUA. Currently Sprout Pharmaceuticals is offering a grant to cover the cost of a one week preceptorship, exclusive of travel expenses. To apply for this grant, please send your CV and a letter of interest including why you want to participate in this training and how you intend to integrate your new knowledge into your practice to suewgoldstein@gmail.com by April 15. You will be notified by May 1 whether or not you you are a grant recipient.