Reply to "If you told your physician: "I have an ACE...or three or four", what would you want your doc to tell you?"

Sam ZarbivMember

Hi Jane,

I had never once heard about ACEs in all four years of medical school, and I never heard of "trauma-informed practices" either.

This year, as an MPH student, I learned about trauma-informed practice through my efforts to create a sustainable collaboration between a student-elective I started on Oral Health and Healing Hurt People. I decided to take Sandy Bloom's course "Violence, Trauma & Adversity" this quarter, and that is when I learned about ACEs. This was truly my "Aha" moment!

Looking back on my third and fourth years of medical school I now realize that if I had known about ACEs and trauma-informed practice my approach to patient care would be very different.

The need to embed a trauma-informed practice curriculum cannot be overstated! I am working on writing a paper on what such a curriculum might look like for Sandy's course, and for submission to our curriculum committee.

Does anyone know of existing models?

sam

3/4/1310:36 AM

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