Getting Started: HHSC-Approved Human Trafficking Training

As a provider in Texas, you are required to complete one HHSC-Approved Human Trafficking Training course, and two medical ethics credits each time you renew your license. When you use the Orbit Texas plan, you'll finish both requirements simultaneously.

Step 1: Sign up for Orbit Texas and support the cause

Go to orbitcme.com/texas to sign up for the Orbit Texas plan ($20) - for each new registration, Orbit will donate $10 towards fighting human trafficking to Free for Life International.

Step 2: Read Four Articles

Read these four articles while logged into Orbit:

1. HHSC Human Trafficking Reader Guide
2. Child sex trafficking in the United States: Challenges for the healthcare provider, PLOS Medicine, November 2017
3. Human trafficking and labor exploitation: Toward identifying, implementing, and evaluating effective responses, PLOS Medicine, January 2010
4. Human Trafficking, StatPearls, 2020.

Step 3: Redeem your Articles in Orbit

Go to your Earn view in Orbit. Redeem the four articles above using the Human Trafficking (TX) tag. Your four articles earn a total of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ in Human Trafficking & Medical Ethics.

Step 4: Repeat this activity before your next license renewal

Before each license renewal, repeat this activity by completing another set of 4 approved articles while logged into Orbit, and redeem your articles for credit using the Human Trafficking (TX) tag.

Tip: Don't read ahead with these approved articles. Use one Article Set per renewal.

Article Set 2

1. Identifying Sexual and Labor Exploitation among Sheltered Youth Experiencing Homelessness: A Comparison of Screening Methods, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Feb 2019
2. Training US health care professionals on human trafficking: where do we go from here?, Medical Education Online, 2017
3. Human Trafficking: A Guide to Identification and Approach for the Emergency Physician, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2016
4. Human Trafficking Identification and Service Provision in the Medical and Social Service Sectors, Health Human Rights, 2016

 

Article Set 3

1. Child Sex Trafficking: Strategies for Identification, Counseling, and Advocacy, International Journal of Advocacy and Counseling, 2021
2. Identification of skin signs in human-trafficking survivors, International Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2021
3. Validation of a screening tool for labor and sex trafficking among emergency department patients,  Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2021
4. Human Trafficking in the Emergency Department: Improving Our Response to a Vulnerable Population, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2020

 

Article Set 4

1. Assessing healthcare provider knowledge of human trafficking, PLOS ONE, 2022
2. Human Trafficking ICD-10 Code Utilization in Pediatric Tertiary Care Centers Within the United States, Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022
3. Implementation of a screening tool for child sex trafficking among youth presenting to the emergency department - A quality improvement initiative, Child Abuse & Neglect, 2022
4. Combatting human trafficking in the United States: how can medical informatics help?, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2020

 

Article Set 5

1. Texas Human Trafficking, StatPearls, 2022
2. Pennsylvania Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting, StatPearls, 2022
3. Youth survivor perspectives on healthcare and sex trafficking, Journal of Pediatric Nursing, 2022
4. Sex trafficking screening and intervention in the emergency department: A scoping review, Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2022

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