JAMA Network | JAMA Pediatrics | Integrating Curricula on Human Trafficking Into Medical Education and Residency Training

JAMA Network | JAMA Pediatrics | Integrating Curricula on Human Trafficking Into Medical Education and Residency Training:

By Aimee M. Grace, MD, MPH; Roy Ahn, MHP, ScD; Wendy Macias Konstantopoulos, MD, MPH

Health care professionals are more likely than other professionals to interact with trafficking victims while they are enslaved. The authors call for "medical schools, residency programs, health professional organizations and societies, and national regulatory bodies to ensure the human trafficking education becomes part of medical school instruction and residency training." This, as well as encouraging research are examples of ways in which health care professionals can respond to human trafficking.

Full article may be available from Dr. Grace (agrace@stanfordalumi.org).