Gun Safety Resource Bundle

Gun violence is a public health crisis

It's time to end gun violence.

Given the growing number of gun deaths each year and our belief that gun violence is a public health crisis, we have compiled the latest curated resources and tools from the AAMC and beyond. Think something is missing from this collection? Share your best practices and resources that you have found on the subject.

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Educational Resources

Consensus-Driven Priorities for Firearm Injury Education Among Medical Professionals
- This report, published in Academic Medicine, provides the first national consensus guidelines on firearm injury education for medical professionals. These priorities include learning objectives applicable to all contexts of firearm injury and all medical disciplines, specialties, and levels of training.
Firearm Safety Counseling for Patients: An Interactive Curriculum for Trauma Providers
- Firearm injuries are a major public health concern. However, rates of firearm safety counseling are particularly low among trauma providers. In this MedEdPORTAL publication, the authors describe an educational initiative to educate trauma providers to offer firearm safety counseling.

Gun Violence Education in Medical School: A Call to Action
- To manage the burden of injury from gun violence and identify prevention strategies, physician leaders must understand the biological and psychosocial aspects of this complex problem. However, gun violence and its complexities are not widely taught in medical schools. This Observation article details why gun violence education is not being included in medical education, offers an informed, science-based model for the disease of gun violence, and suggests methods to integrate gun violence education into medical school curricula.
Reducing the Health Harms of Firearm Violence
- This 2024 report from the Aspen Health Strategy Group, whose membership includes AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, examines gun violence and posits how the United States can support those impacted, proposing five ideas for reducing the health harms of firearm injury.
Firearm Injury Prevention: Medical Student Education Program
- Physicians often do their most important work in prevention. Yet, few talk with patients and families about firearm injury prevention. Some clinicians may be uncomfortable with the topic having never learned in medical school how to ensure these conversations are accurate, effective, and focused on health. The NEJM Group are providing free training to address this gap.

AAMC Created Resources

Recent AAMCNews articles on the health and other effects of gun violence on communities, physicians, and hospitals and what academic medicine can do to reduce gun violence include:
At the crossroads: Addressing gun violence as a public health crisis
- AAMC President and CEO David J. Skorton, MD, addresses the problem of gun violence as multifaceted and complex but argues that the lessons learned from COVID-19 may help us understand and identify effective solutions. Everyone has a role to play.
AAMC Statement on Recent Mass Shootings in Texas, New York, California
- Our 2022 statement calls on Congress to take decisive action to work toward a safer world for our children and communities: "Gun violence is not political. It is a public health crisis that must be addressed. How much more can our nation endure?"

Additional Resources

Additional Resources

Academic Medicine article collection: The Role of Academic Medicine in Firearm Injury Prevention
MedEdPORTAL publication: Locked and (Un)-Loaded Discussions: A Pediatric Resident Safe Firearm Storage Counseling Curriculum
2022 Research Funding Letter sent to Chairman Leahy, Vice Chairman Shelby, Chair DeLauro, and Ranking Member Granger.

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Related Podcasts

At the crossroads: Addressing gun violence as a public health crisis

The problem of gun violence is multifaceted and complex, but the lessons learned from COVID-19 may help us understand and identify effective solutions. Everyone has a role to play

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Educating Physicians About Firearm Safety and Injury Prevention

On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, guests talk about firearm safety and injury prevention education. They discuss the role of physicians in engaging patients and communities in firearm injury risk reduction, the current state of firearm injury prevention education, and where the academic medicine community needs to go from here.