Comment on “From Screening to Interventions: Teaching Clinical Suicide Prevention Skills to Medical Students”

To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Chuop et al. [...]the authors highlight a particularly relevant goal cited by the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry: to identify the risk factors for suicide [1]. Additionally, there appears no defined, structured curriculum by which learners firearm injury prevention training is provided; teaching methods varied widely between group discussions, case-based learning, and audio recordings, and outcomes for learning objectives were only able to be validated within one of the four studies [3]. In 2003, a survey investigating firearm safety education among a representative sample of 2316 medical students across 16 medical schools [4] found that the level of gun ownership and firearm-related counseling for medical students was below the average of that of the general population.