What’s the evidence base for future standards of care for trafficked patients?

As a matter of medical ethics, physicians must advocate for their vulnerable patients and medical schools should offer training in advocacy and activism.

Implementation of child abuse reporting laws may help policymakers assess the potential risks and benefits of mandatory reporting of human trafficking.

Groupthink is an ethical problem because unconscious bias or the status quo may prevent appropriate medical response to trafficking victims and survivors.

Research and training are needed so that physicians are able to identify human trafficking victims and refer them to appropriate trauma-informed treatment.

Physicians have an ethical obligation to provide not only clinical care but also forensic examinations to human trafficking victims in conflict zones.

A mandatory faculty course on dyslexia is recommended to prevent bias against and misunderstanding of medical students who have this condition.

For reasons of medical ethics, medical schools should embrace functional technical standards that focus on the capabilities of students with disabilities.

The student-faculty run Crimson Care Collaborative is a model of team-based patient care that is nonhierarchical and interprofessional.

Interprofessional education facilitates health care team members’ communication, which impacts patient care, and thus is relevant to medical ethics.