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Human trafficking is a global health problem, affecting the health of men, women, and children, and disproportionately affecting marginalized populations. At some point during their exploitation, those who experience trafficking will likely have contact with a health professional. 1 Unfortunately, many trafficking survivors report that contact with health professionals did not lead to safety and healing: their exploitation was not identified, they felt judged, or they feared arrest or/deportation. A holistic response to trafficking in the health care setting is critical, involving multidisciplinary coordination including social work, nursing, midlevel providers, and physicians. 2,3 The health care workforce is comprised of millions of practicing clinicians who have not been trained on responses to trafficking. Moreover, trafficking is not routinely a part of medical curricula. 4 Given the fact that trafficking is just beginning to come onto medicine's radar, there are very few individuals with the combination of expertise in teaching skills and trauma-informed clinical trafficking approaches. 4 Simply put, there is a chiasmic gap between those health professionals who are and are not competent in caring for trafficked people and few people qualified to train them. 4

A panel of physicians from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Graduate Medical Education (GME), Ethics, and Industry Relations Committees were asked by the SAEM Board of Directors to write a position paper on the relationship of emergency medicine (EM) GME with industry. Using multiple sources as references, the team derived a set of guidelines that all EM GME training programs can use when interacting with industry representatives. In addition, the team used a questionanswer format to provide educators and residents with a practical approach to these interactions.

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