University of Michigan Medical School, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Educ Prim Care. 2022 Nov;33(6):364-368. doi: 10.1080/14739879.2022.2137856. Epub 2022 Oct 28.
Asylum seekers face significant and unique healthcare challenges, requiring healthcare practitioners, specifically in primary care, to be trained to care for this patient population. However, there is limited understanding of medical students' interest in and future ability to care for the population of asylum seekers in the United States.
We aim to understand U.S. medical students' interest, experience, and knowledge in providing care for asylum seekers to assess the need for change in the ways in which medical schools introduce asylum seeker care to learners.
A 23-question survey was administered to U.S. medical students at four institutions with asylum programmes affiliated with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) from June 2020 to March 2021, querying various aspects of providing care to asylum seekers.
Of the approximately 2846 students who received the survey, 436 students (15%) completed it in its entirety. Most respondents desired training about caring for asylum seekers (91%). Over half (52%) rated their knowledge of asylum issues overall as 'poor' or 'none', and 73% thought their medical school's curriculum on asylum seeker health needed improvement.
Medical students at schools with affiliated asylum clinics desire to care for asylum seeker patients but feel unprepared to do so, highlighting an unmet need for formal asylum education in U.S. medical schools.
寻求庇护者面临着重大且独特的医疗保健挑战，这要求医疗保健从业者，特别是初级保健从业者，接受培训以照顾这一患者群体。然而，对于美国医学生对照顾寻求庇护者的兴趣和未来能力，了解有限。
我们旨在了解美国医学生对为寻求庇护者提供医疗服务的兴趣、经验和知识，以评估医学院校向学习者介绍寻求庇护者护理的方式是否需要改变。
2020 年 6 月至 2021 年 3 月，我们向与 Physicians for Human Rights（PHR）有合作关系的美国四所机构的医学生发放了一份包含 23 个问题的调查问卷，询问了为寻求庇护者提供医疗服务的各个方面。
在收到调查的大约 2846 名学生中，有 436 名学生（15%）完整地完成了调查。大多数受访者希望接受有关照顾寻求庇护者的培训（91%）。超过一半（52%）的人总体上认为自己对庇护问题的了解“差”或“没有”，73%的人认为自己医学院的庇护寻求者健康课程需要改进。
在有合作关系的庇护诊所的学校中，医学生渴望照顾寻求庇护者患者，但觉得自己准备不足，这突显了美国医学院校正式开展庇护教育的需求未得到满足。
