Intimate partner violence: An interdisciplinary approach

Verma, Nisha

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 11:25 AM-12:45 PM

Room 2 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Nisha Verma, BS, BA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Discuss importance of interdisciplinary education for health care providers.
Understand general overview of training model and how to bring similar models to participant’s own areas.
Describe effectiveness assessment techniques used to obtain participant feedback on trainings.

Description:
As a medical student, I was surprised by how little interdisciplinary training about intimate partner violence (IPV) we received: how to connect patients with social work, how to testify on a patient’s behalf in court, how to work with nurses to screen patients. I worked with experts in multiple disciplines to design this training, which aims to encourage conversation among medical, law, nursing, public health, and social work students, allowing us to more effectively collaborate to support survivors of IPV.