Treatment and prevention of violence and abuse: Core competencies for the health professions

Ambuel, Bruce

Friday, March 30, 2012: 3:40 PM-5:00 PM

Pacific A (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)

Speaker:
Bruce Ambuel, PhD, MS, Medical College of Wisconsin

Authors:
Katrina E. Trent, DPT, Ridgeview Medical Center
Patricia M. Lenahan, LCSW, MFT, BCETS, University of Southern California
Peter F. Cronholm, MD, MSCE, University of Pennsylvania
Donald F. Downing, BS, Pharm, University of Washington School of Pharmacy
Megan McGraw Letson, MD, MEd, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Annie Lewis-O'Connor, PhD, NP, MPH, Brigham and Women's Hosptial and Harvard Medical School
Anna Marjavi, BA, Futures Without Violence
Lynn Douglas Mouden, DDS, MPH, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Janice Humphreys, PhD, RN, NP, FAAN, University of California, San Francisco

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Articulate why core competencies in the treatment and prevention of violence and abuse are important for all health professions training programs
Determine the value of an ecological model of educational competency that includes the individual learner, academic training programs and health care systems
Recognize the Academy on Violence and Abuse recommendations regarding core competencies in the treatment and prevention of violence and abuse, and understand how these can be used as a foundation for profession specific competencies

Description:
Violence and abuse is a significant health and public health problem. The Institute of Medicine has called for development of education competencies (ECs) for the health care professions. We describe work by the Academy on Violence and Abuse to develop interdisciplinary ECs for the health professions. Unique features of these competencies include: input from multiple health professions; inclusion of treatment and primary prevention; and, an ecological model that describes competencies of the individual learner, educational system and health care system.