Beyond “Run, Hide, Fight”

• Published in: Academic psychiatry Vol. 47; no. 5; pp. 490 - 491
• Main Authors: Kramer, Eric N., Shipley, Jonathan, Palm, Catherine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 01-10-2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Accident Prevention; Bipartisan Safer Communities Act 2022-US; Counseling; Crisis Management; Curricula; Death; Education; Firearm accidents & safety; Guidelines; Gun violence; High School Students; Injuries; Injury prevention; Instructional Materials; Learning; Letter to the Editor; Mass murders; Medical Education; Medical schools; Medical Students; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Mental Disorders; Physicians; Psychiatrists; Psychiatry; School Safety; Students; Suicide; Suicides & suicide attempts; Teachers; The Role of Psychiatric Education in Addressing Mass Shootings and Preventing Violence; Violence; Weapons; United States > US
• ISSN: 1042-9670; 1545-7230; 1545-7230
• DOI: 10.1007/s40596-023-01784-8

[...]1 h is the cumulative amount of required, dedicated firearm injury prevention education that the first and second authors have received across their combined 6 years of medical school at two institutions, which is staggering, considering the 48,830 firearm deaths in the USA in 2021 that have created untold traumas and a pervasive fear of mass shootings, even though mass shootings represent a tiny fraction of all firearm deaths [2]. While involuntary psychiatric holds may have differing implications on firearm ownership by state, certain individuals involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital receive a federal lifetime ban from purchasing and owning firearms. Medical educators should form collaborations between schools of public health and public policy and look to the multidisciplinary expert advisory group that created the first national consensus guidelines on firearm injury education for medical professionals, as these guidelines can act as a framework for curriculum development [5].