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Health care professionals serve a vital role in preventative health. Discussing firearm safety habits with patients has been shown to improve patient safety by increasing the number of firearms that are kept locked and unloaded in homes. However, due to a lack of training, physicians often do not feel comfortable counseling patients and families regarding safe ownership of guns.

According to the CDC, gun violence remains a major cause of death and injury in the United States. Although physicians are frequently tasked with treating firearm injuries in acute care trauma settings and promoting injury prevention at primary care clinics, only a minority of medical education programs have dedicated curricula addressing firearm violence. It is well known that medical school curricula are overcrowded, limiting the ability for programs to introduce updated content. However, medical students recognize the importance of this focus in their training to become physicians; demand for firearm injury prevention education remains high.

We created the “Clinicians and Firearms” curriculum to be readily adopted into pre-existing programming. It is newly re-designed around guidelines for technical standards outlined by M.D. and D.O. programs throughout the United States. Competencies defined by the AAMC’s Physician Competency Reference Set (PCRS) and individual programs were referenced during development. Although the course is intended to be completed in its entirety, individual components can be treated as stand-alone to best accommodate program scheduling and goals.

Our Distribution packet includes:

Course Overview
Course Marketing
CME
Instructions
Evaluation
Asset Library
Additional Resources
Please send an email to info@standsafe.org or to avolkman@standsafe.org to request a distribution packet.