Educating Physicians About Firearm Safety and Injury Prevention

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests Katherine Hoops, MD, MPH, Andra Blomkalns, MD, MBA, and Allison Augustus-Wallace, PhD, MS, MNS, join host Toni Gallo to talk about firearm safety and injury prevention education. They discuss the role of physicians in engaging patients and communities in firearm injury risk reduction, the current state of firearm injury prevention education, and where the academic medicine community needs to go from here. This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available. A transcript is below. Read the articles discussed in this episode:  Hoops K, Fahimi J, Khoeur L, et al. Consensus-driven priorities for firearm injury education among medical professionals. Acad Med. 2022;97:93-104. Mueller KL, Blomkalns AL, Ranney ML. Taking aim at the injury prevention curriculum: Educating residents on talking to patients about firearm injury [published online ahead of print April 19, 2022]. Acad Med. Read the complete collection of articles on firearm injury prevention published in Academic Medicine. Transcript Toni Gallo: Before we begin, a quick note. This episode discusses suicide. If you or a loved one is in distress, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides free and confidential support online at 988lifeline.org or over the phone at 988. Hi, everyone. I’m Toni Gallo. I’m a staff editor with Academic Medicine and host of tod...
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