159 – What is a Medical Home?

Dr. Sandra Morgan and Dave Stachowiak talk to Dr. Ron Chambers about the importance of teaching physicians proper patient care systems for trafficking victims in order to build better medical homes. Key Points Few medical students receive human trafficking training. We need to meet the need of the patient population not just in the first days or weeks, but long term. Community agencies are often wary of bringing victims to medical providers because they are afraid the victims will be re-traumatized. Many victims leave safe houses because the environment is so unfamiliar. You need to be able to meet victims where they’re at. Do they need physical help or mental health services? We must be prepared to provide both. Young men and boys are an underserved trafficking victim community. “The physician education, training, and development of a human trafficking victim medical home developed at the Dignity Health Family Medicine Residency Program has been conceptualized and implemented with incredible success.  We hope to spread the concept to residencies clinics throughout the country and standardize human trafficking victim and survivor care in physician education and training across the country. It is a viable solution with the potential to synergistically provide widespread healthcare that coincides with training the physicians of tomorrow to recognize and treat this vulnerable patient population.” —Dr. Ron Chambers Resources Dignity Health Human Trafficking Clinic Human Trafficking Response Program Manual Are you enjoying the show? If you enjoyed this episode, please take a moment to subscribe or rate the podcast on iTunes by clicking here. Click here for FAQs about podcasts and how to subscribe. Haven't been receiving our newsletter? Visit our homepage to join today. Contact us with questions, comments, or suggestions at [email protected]. Transcript Dave: [00:00:00] You're listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. This is episode number 159, What is a Medical Home? An interview with Dr. Ron Chambers. Production Credits: [00:00:10] Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential. Dave: [00:00:34] Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast. My name is Dave Stachowiak. Sandie: [00:00:39] And my name is Sandie Morgan. Dave: [00:00:41] And this is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Sandie, each episode we work to bring something that's most relevant to our listening community or to bring a guest that will really help us to expand our knowledge. And today is no different. I'm excited Sandie: [00:01:05] I am too, Dr. Ron Chambers is a program director DIO at Family Medicine Residency Program Chair and his work at Mercy Family Health Center and Mercy Human Trafficking Clinic is to me just very cutting edge and it's emerging best practice. So, we want to welcome Dr. Chambers to Ending Human Trafficking. Ron: [00:01:30] Well, thank you for having me. Sandie: [00:01:32] OK so one of the quotes that I have from you that was kind of a catalyst that made me want to go and see what you were doing, so I actually went and visited Dr. Chambers in Sacramento when I was up there for the California Sociological Association conference. And he said, "the physician education, training, and development of a human trafficking victim medical home developed at the Dignity Health Family Medicine Residency program has been conceptualized and implemented with incredible success. We hope to spread the concept to residencies clinics throughout the country and standardize human trafficking victim and survivor care in physician education and training across the country. It is a viable solution with the potential to synergistically provide widespread health care that coincides with training the physicians of tomorrow to recognize and treat this vulnerable patient population.

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