title: Students' experience of prison health education during medical school.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Social responsibility and accountability can be important core values in medical education. At the University of British Columbia, undergraduate medical students engage in prison health community service-learning opportunities in regional correctional facilities.
  
  
  METHODS
  To describe the impact of prison health exposure on pre-clinical medical students, in-depth individual interviews were conducted with individuals who had participated in a prison health medical education program. All interviews were transcribed verbatim, and interpretive descriptive methods were used to inductively derive thematic findings to describe students' experiences.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Major themes emerged as students reported how (1) exposure to incarcerated populations increases students' insight into issues that diverse marginalized sub-populations encounter; (2) positive interactions with the incarcerated individuals enhances relationship building; (3) collaboration reinforces teamwork skills and (4) community placements garner important learning opportunities within the medical school curriculum.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our findings demonstrated that pre-clinical exposure to incarcerated individuals and prison health education provided a unique setting for medical students to develop an increased sense of social responsibility and accountability.
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia , Canada.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Filek
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Harris
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koehn
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Oliffe
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Buxton
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D011330:Prisons; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013337:Students, Medical