Medical College of Wisconsin Medical School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Office of Academic Affairs at Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
J Correct Health Care. 2022 Apr;28(2):84-89. doi: 10.1089/jchc.20.05.0042. Epub 2022 Apr 1.
We designed an anonymous survey to identify knowledge gaps regarding correctional medicine and health disparities for justice-affected patients and distributed it to medical students. Fifty-six percent of the 140 students who responded (14% response rate) had some interaction with the criminal justice system and/or a justice-affected person. Most students somewhat agreed to having knowledge of health risks/disparities related to incarceration. Most were unaware of correctional medicine as a subspecialty. A majority felt comfortable providing care to justice-affected patients and on average agree this population should have equal access to health care. There was a statistically significant correlation between students who considered correctional medicine as a career and belief that these patients should have equal health care access, with the importance of including correctional health care in medical education. We agree with the growing body of literature that concludes there is a need for correctional health care curricula in medical education.
我们设计了一份匿名调查，以了解医学生在矫正医学和与司法相关的患者健康差异方面的知识空白，并将其分发给他们。在 140 名回应的学生中（回应率为 14%），有 56%的学生与刑事司法系统和/或受司法影响的人有过某种互动。大多数学生或多或少同意了解与监禁相关的健康风险/差异。大多数人不知道矫正医学是一个专科。大多数学生对为受司法影响的患者提供护理感到舒适，并平均认为这一人群应平等获得医疗保健。认为矫正医学是一种职业的学生与认为这些患者应平等获得医疗保健的学生之间存在统计学上的显著相关性，而将矫正医疗纳入医学教育则非常重要。我们同意越来越多的文献的结论，即医学教育中需要包含矫正医疗课程。
