Training and Education

Health Care Providers

Educating health care providers about legal advocacy is the first step toward a partnership. While the lawyers provide the training, they themselves begin to understand and learn from the clinicians. Indeed, legal partners must shadow clinicians and spend significant time in clinic getting to know the landscape and watching other trainings and in-services. 

Sample training and education materials are available from the Boston MLPC site.  A reading list for BMC's Pediatric Residents in Primary Care Block is available here.

Students, Residents and Service Providers

In addition to training physician partners, it's important to educate other community members about the benefits of medical-legal collaboration. A training given jointly by a doctor and a lawyer is especially effective.

Boston | MLPC trains law and medical school students during its annual Student Workshop on Child Health and the Law and provides first year pediatrics residents with an advocacy boot camp. Boston MLPC has also trained clinicians at health centers around the city, agency workers, and lawyers from law firms donating pro bono hours.

Training and Education Working Group