Rx for RJ
Prescribing Restorative Justice for Education in the Health Professions
The Rx for RJ Project introduces restorative practices education in the health professions as a way to address learner mistreatment and provide a community-building response to improve the learning environment.Publications
Acosta, David and David R. Karp. 2017. "Restorative Justice as the Rx for Mistreatment in Academic Medicine: Applications to Consider for Learners, Faculty and Staff.” Academic Medicine 93: 354-356. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002037
Behel, Jay M.. 2019. “I Shall Be Released.” Restorative Justice Techniques Can Address Healthcare Burnout & Attrition." Reflective MedEd.
Behel, Jay M., and Adrienne S. Lawson. 2018. "Healing the Healers." AAMC News.
Free Webinars: AAMC Restorative Justice for Academic Medicine
Using Restorative Justice (RJ) to Build Community in Academic Medicine (Tier I) - October 15, 2019
Using RJ to Respond to Mistreatment and Bias (Tier II) - November 21, 2019
Using RJ for Community Reintegration (Tier III) - December 10, 2019
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Restorative Justice in Healthcare
While restorative justice is widely applied in criminal justice and educational settings, it is new to healthcare. Here are two relevant resources:
Carroll, J., & Reisel, D. (2018). Introducing restorative practice in healthcare settings. Chapter 15 in The Routledge Handbook of Restorative Justice, edited by Theo Gavrielides. Routledge.
Wailling, J., Marshall, C., & Wilkinson, J. (2019). Hearing and responding to the stories of survivors of surgical mesh: Ngā kōrero a ngā mōrehu – he urupare (A report for the Ministry of Health). Wellington, New Zealand: The Diana Unwin Chair in Restorative Justice, Victoria University of Wellington.
UC Davis Medical School Rx for RJ Training Group