Strategies for healthcare professionals to identify and assist migrant children at risk of labour exploitation or trafficking.

Increasingly large numbers of children and youth are migrating across international borders with many seeking employment in both formal and informal work sectors. These young people are at high risk of exploitation. Healthcare professionals need to be able to recognise vulnerable patients and advocate for their protection and safety, yet there is a paucity of literature that provides guidance on how to accomplish this.

Human trafficking in the health care setting: recommendations for the physical medicine and rehabilitation provider.

Purpose: This study aims to provide trauma informed recommendations for screening and discusses responsibilities of the physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) provider for responding and advocating for patients experiencing human trafficking.

Materials & Methods: Existing literature relating to human trafficking across rehabilitation settings was reviewed. In addition, two cases of human trafficking in the rehabilitation setting are presented, including a confirmed case of human trafficking in an adult and a suspected case of human trafficking in a child.

Professional integrity in maternal - fetal innovation and research: an essential component of perinatal medicine.

Objectives: Clinical innovation and research on maternal-fetal interventions have become an essential for the development of perinatal medicine. In this paper, we present an ethical argument that the professional virtue of integrity should guide perinatal investigators.

Methods: We present an historical account of the professional virtue of integrity and the key distinction that this account requires between intellectual integrity and moral integrity.

Motivational Interviewing as a Therapeutic Strategy for Trafficked Persons.

It is estimated that 40 million people worldwide have experienced human trafficking (UN, International Labour Organization & Walk-Free Foundation, 2019), with 313,000 trafficked persons in the state of Texas alone (Busch-Armendariz et al., 2016). These staggering numbers are indicative of human trafficking as a growing public health concern.

Potential Impact of Climate Change on Human Trafficking: A Narrative Review.

Climate change is a threat to the public health with wide-reaching impacts that are becoming more studied and recognized. An aspect of climate change that has not yet gained adequate scholarly attention is its potential impact on human trafficking. We review the potential impact of climate change on risk factors to human trafficking including poverty, gender inequality, political instability, migration or forced displacement, and weather disasters.

Food Refusal Secondary to Psychosis: A Case Series and Literature Review.

The aim of this article is to emphasize that starvation is an important potential consequence of psychosis and to provide recommendations for management of this condition. A review of the literature on food refusal and starvation in patients with psychotic illnesses was performed. Our search strategy returned 54 articles with one article meeting inclusion criteria.

Trustworthiness and Professionalism in Academic Medicine.

Trustworthiness is the cornerstone professional virtue in the practice of medicine. The authors' goals for this Invited Commentary were to provide an account of the professional virtue of trustworthiness and its historical origins as well as to suggest how trustworthiness in a professional curriculum can be taught and assessed. They identified 2 components of trustworthiness that originate in the work of John Gregory (1724-1773) and Thomas Percival (1740-1804), who invented the ethical concept of medicine as a profession.

Current Trends in Psychiatric Education Among Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Programs.

Objective: This study sought to evaluate the status of psychiatric education in Ob/Gyn residencies.

Methods: A 17-item anonymous questionnaire was sent to program directors of 239 Ob/Gyn US residencies. Data analysis was performed using STATA 14.