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A Student-Faculty Collaboration: Embedding Trauma-Informed Care in Medical Education

Nhi-Ha Trinh1, Sarah Berman, Taylor Brown

  • 1From Harvard Medical School (Drs. Trinh, Berman, Brown, Royce, Rittenberg, Elisseou, Levy-Carrick, Hirsh, Jarvie, and Potter); Academic Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA (Drs. Trinh and Levy-Carrick); Department of Psychiatry (Dr. Berman), Department of Medicine (Dr. Hirsh), Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA; Department of Emergency Medicine (Dr. Brown), Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (Dr. Royce), Department of Medicine (Dr. Potter), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA (Dr. Rittenberg); Boston University School of Medicine (Dr. Elisseou); Office of Academic and Faculty Affairs, Columbia School of Social Work (Dr. Jarvie).

Harvard Review of Psychiatry
|June 26, 2026
PubMed
Summary

Trauma-informed medical education (TIME) integrates trauma-informed care (TIC) principles to support students and patients. This paper details a collaborative approach to developing TIME curricula, offering strategies for broader implementation in medical schools.

Keywords:
adversitycurriculum developmentmedical educationtraumatrauma-informed caretrauma-informed medical education

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