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| Wisconsin university to offer course on treating inmates |
| By ironmountaindailynews.com |
| Published: 08/13/2018 |
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health will offer a new course to teach future doctors how to treat a growing prison population and former convicts once they are released. The new course will be offered this fall, Wisconsin Public Radio reported. The university is recruiting up to 20 students for the class that will teach students about the trauma people who are incarcerated experience before, during and after serving their sentence. “We know they have more health care problems than the general population,” said Robert Striker, an infectious disease specialist with the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. Striker, who helps the state Department of Corrections treat conditions like hepatitis C and HIV, is behind the course. He’s working with the Nehemiah Center for Urban Leadership Development, a Madison-based nonprofit organization that works to address both social and justice issues affecting African-Americans in the greater Madison community. Read More. |
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