About a hundred students at the Emory School of Medicine gathered during lunch earlier this fall, scarfing down their meal before a panel discussion. They came, on their own time, to learn how to talk to their future patients about gun safety. They only had an hour.
“That was the most we’ve talked about it this year,” said Alyssa Greenhouse, a second-year med student at Emory.
Greenhouse organized the lunch session for her fellow medical students because learning how to discuss firearms with patients is not a part of the mandatory medical school curriculum.
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