The BulletPoints Project at UC Davis

The BulletPoints Project at UC Davis

Hospitals and Health Care

Sacramento, California 205 followers

Clinical Tools for Preventing Firearm Injury - www.BulletPointsProject.org - Twitter @BulletPtsProj

About us

The BulletPoints Project at UC Davis is a resource to support clinicians & health care educators in becoming more informed & effective partners in preventing firearm injury in their patients. Our mission is to teach medical & mental health care providers how to reduce the risk of firearm injury & death in their patients. The majority of clinicians feel that preventing firearm injury is within their scope of practice, & patients are generally receptive to having these conversations with their health care providers. However, most clinicians say they don’t routinely counsel patients about firearm injury prevention & the topic is largely absent from medical and nursing school curricula. In 2019, California Assembly Bill 521, sponsored by Assemblymember Marc Berman, authorized three years of funding through the University of California Davis Firearm Violence Research Center (UCDFC) to fill that gap – and the BulletPoints Project was born. Our interdisciplinary team, in collaboration with health care providers, researchers, legal experts, medical educators, & firearm owners, is creating, implementing, & evaluating educational materials and curricula for clinicians, covering topics such as the epidemiology of firearm injury and death, the basics of firearms and firearm storage, risk factors for firearm injury, best practices for talking with patients, & relevant policies. Everything we do is informed by the best available research, evidence, & clinical best practices. Our educational materials are available to clinicians from different professions & at all levels of training (and anyone else who’s interested) through our website, continuing education courses, webinars and presentations, videos, social media, & more. We believe a well-informed, politically neutral, & collaborative approach to firearm injury prevention is the most effective way to save lives. Website: BulletPointsProject.org Twitter: @BulletPtsProj Email: hs-bulletpoints@ucdavis.edu

Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Company size
2-10 employees
Headquarters
Sacramento, California
Type
Nonprofit

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