Medical students' awareness of traditional Southwest Native American values during pregnancy: a randomized, controlled trial.

Objective: To determine if medical students' attendance at specialized prenatal clinics for Southwest Native American women would impact their awareness of and comfort in discussing traditional and unique values during pregnancy.

Study Design: In this unblinded, randomized trial, all 154 third-year students rotating consecutively on our obstetrics-gynecology clerkship consented to enrolling in this study. Participants were randomly assigned either to attend a high-risk prenatal clinic (rural or urban locations) for Native American women or to not attend (control group).