Confronting Chronic Neglect The Education and Training of Health Professionals on Family Violence (2002) / Chapter Skim
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3 Current Educational Activities in the Health Professions
3 Current Educational Activities in the Health Professions
Pages 35-44
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PHYSICIAN EDUCATION Medical School A majority of medical schools report the existence of educational content on at least one form of family violence (Liaison Committee on Medical Education Annual Medical School Questionnaire, 1999-2000, questions 39a, 39b)
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The content is usually integrated into courses on history taking and communication or is offered during emergency medicine and obstetrics-gynecology rotations. With the exception of the few schools that now offer problem-based intimate partner violence cases or clinical electives, most instruction on intimate partner violence and elder abuse still occurs in the preclinical years and is predominantly content focused, lecture based, isolated, and not integrated into the overall educational schema with clinical correlations and cross-disciplinary education (Alpert et al., 19981.
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A number of residency and fellowship programs report intimate partner violence content. In a study of primary care internal medicine residency program directors on women's health issues, 40 percent stated they include structured teaching on intimate partner violence in their training programs, and 20 percent believed their residents had mastered the subject (Staropoli et al., 1997~.
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A similar group, the Dental Coalition to Combat Child Abuse and Neglect, was formed in Massachusetts to educate dental professionals about how to detect and report cases of child maltreatment. The coalition conducted an intensive statewide program that included educational materials on child maltreatment, intensive media coverage, oral slide presentations at state society meetings, and
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A total of 91 percent of schools reported addressing intimate partner violence (Woodtli and Breslin, 1996~. One-third of the programs reported specifically planned and professionally guided learning experiences in clinical settings (primarily domestic violence shelters)
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Almost all major textbooks in undergraduate baccalaureate nursing programs do have content on at least one form of family violence. However, family violence content is noticeably lacking in the physical assessment textbooks commonly used at both baccalaureate and advanced-practice levels, except for child abuse and neglect.
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For intimate partner violence or domestic violence or spouse abuse, 802 citations were identified. The term elder abuse elicited 133 articles.
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As with child maltreatment, such training, when it occurs, usually consists of continuing education workshops. A task force convened by the presidents of five APA divisions is, at this writing, near completion of curricula on intimate partner violence.
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The committee sought information concerning any course listings that indicated the course was about family violence, violence in general domestic violence, intimate partner violence, child abuse, child sexual abuse, or elder mistreatment. In addition, information was solicited directly from deans and program directors about educational content on family violence at either the BSW or MSW levels.
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. In formal curricula on family violence, content is incomplete, instruction time is generally minimal, content and teaching methods vary, and the issue is not well integrated throughout the educational experience.
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