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Suicide has reached epidemic proportions in the US − yet medical students still don’t receive adequate training to treat suicidal patients

  • Written by Rodolfo Bonnin, Assistant Dean for Institutional Knowledge Management and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Florida International University
imageEvery year, more than 12 million Americans have suicidal thoughts.Djavan Rodriguez/Moment via Getty Images

Suicide in the U.S. is a societal epidemic and a staggering public health crisis that demands attention from medical experts.

In 2021, someone in the U.S. died by suicide every 11 minutes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...

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