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6/6/23 - Medical Grand Rounds: Doctors, Guns, & Money: Physicians and Fixing the Problem of Firearm Injuries

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Describe the epidemiology of firearm-related injuries 
  • Discuss effective strategies to reduce firearm fatalities and non-fatal injuries
  • Contrast ethical and professional implications of addressing or avoiding the issue of firearm injury prevention

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Mental health care utilization among child and adolescents with a firearm injury. JAMA Surg 2023;158(1):29-34
  2. Lois Lee et al. Crossing the lines - a change in the leading cause of death among U.S. children. NEJM april 2022
  3. Goldstick, Jason E., Rebecca M. Cunningham, and Patrick M. Carter. 2022. “Current Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the United States.” New England Journal of Medicine 386 (20): 1955–56. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMc2201761.
  4. Grinshteyn, Erin, and David Hemenway. 2019. “Violent Death Rates in the US Compared to Those of the Other High-Income Countries, 2015.” Preventive Medicine 123 (June): 20–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.02.026.

Authors:
Deborah Moss, MD, MPH, FAAP — Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Division of General Academic Pediatrics; Pediatric Medical Director, UPMC for You and Medical Director, UPMC for Kids
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Jack Rozel, MD, MSL, DFAPA — Medical Director, Resolve Crisis Network of UPMC Western Psychiatric Hospital; Professor of Psychiatry and Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
Vaishali Dixit Schuchert, MD, FACS — Associate Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine; Director of Medical Student Education, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

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