Need for Injury Prevention Education In Medical School Curriculum

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" Need for Injury Prevention Education In Medical School Curriculum "
Yoshii, Isaac; Sayegh, Rockan; Lotfipour, Shahram; Vaca, Federico E.

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	934446
Doc. No	:	LA0z7315jr
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Yoshii, Isaac; Sayegh, Rockan; Lotfipour, Shahram; Vaca, Federico E.
Title & Author	:	Need for Injury Prevention Education In Medical School Curriculum [Article]\ Yoshii, Isaac; Sayegh, Rockan; Lotfipour, Shahram; Vaca, Federico E.
Title of Periodical	:	Western Journal of Emergency Medicine: Integrating Emergency Care with Population Health
Volume/ Issue Number	:	11/1
Date	:	2010
Abstract	:	Injury is the leading cause of death and disability among the U.S. population aged 1 to 44 years. In 2006 more than 179,000 fatalities were attributed to injury. Despite increasing awareness of the global epidemic of injury and violence, a considerable gap remains between advances in injury-prevention research and prevention knowledge that is taught to medical students. This article discusses the growing need for U.S medical schools to train future physicians in the fundamentals of injury prevention and control. Teaching medical students to implement injury prevention in their future practice should help reduce injury morbidity and mortality. Deliberate efforts should be made to integrate injury-prevention education into existing curriculum. Key resources are available to do this. Emergency physicians can be essential advocates in establishing injury prevention training because of their clinical expertise in treating injury. Increasing the number of physicians with injury- and violence- prevention knowledge and skills is ultimately an important strategy to reduce the national and global burden of injury. [West J Emerg Med. 2010; 11(1):40-43].