Characteristics and Perspectives of Human Trafficking Education: A Survey of U.S. Medical School Administrators and Students.

To assess the timing, duration, methodology, and content of human trafficking (HT) curricula in U.S. medical schools.

Sexting and Young Adolescents: Associations with Sexual Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence.

Study Objective: To explore whether sexting by young adolescent girls and boys is associated with adverse life experiences including exploitative or violent sexual relationships.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional, anonymous survey of a convenience sample of minor adolescents younger than age 18 years recruited while waiting for care in clinics affiliated with a children's hospital in a low-resource, high-poverty, urban community.

Participants: Five hundred fifty-five adolescents aged 14-17 years, 63% girls and 37% boys.

Ovarian Cystadenoma in a Trafficked Patient.

The topic of child sex trafficking is receiving increased attention both in the lay press and in research articles. Recently, a number of physician organizations have issued policy statements calling for the education and involvement of physicians in combating this form of "modern-day slavery." Primary care and emergency medicine physicians have led these efforts, but a number of these victims may present to surgeons.

Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors: Medical Student and Physician Awareness.

Study Objective: Our aim was to assess: (1) medical trainee and practicing physician awareness about domestic sex trafficking of minors; and (2) whether respondents believe that awareness of trafficking is important to their practice.

Design And Setting: We designed an anonymous electronic survey, and a convenience sample was collected from June through October 2013.

Participants: Voluntary participants were 1648 medical students, residents, and practicing physicians throughout the United States.