Health Care for People Who Are Incarcerated: Teaching Third-Year Medical Students About Rights, Challenges, and Avenues of Advocacy.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Incarcerated patients are a vulnerable patient population with unique barriers to health care that physicians in every specialty encounter. Current medical school curricula lack universal education on health care for incarcerated people.

Methods

We developed an interactive workshop to provide third-year medical students at the University of Kentucky with information about delivering care outside of dedicated carceral settings to individuals who are incarcerated. The workshop included education on the demographic characteristics and medical conditions present in these populations along with understanding incarcerated persons' rights to health care and how to interact with them and the associated jail/prison workforce often accompanying them on medical visits. The

SUBMITTER: South AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11540842 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature