All doctors work with prison populations

I was pleased to read the article by Calvelli et al highlighting the lack of education on prison populations and hope that it will be read by those who wield editing rights to our medical school curriculums.1I must disagree, however, with the statement that “not all medical students will work directly with prison populations in their future clinical practice,” and would challenge this as a defensible reason for its relative absence from the medical curriculum. I would be surprised to meet any NHS medical professional who has not seen and treated a person who is incarcerated.Furthermore, the social determinants of health that unfavourably apply to prison populations also apply to many groups who are not incarcerated. People at high risk of incarceration have unique health needs. Learning to appreciate and subvert the challenges faced by these populations when interacting with healthcare will benefit clinicians and these patients.Developing the confidence to…
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