Curriculum
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center offers a broad range of experience and professional training through the Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children Division's Insuring the Children Child Abuse Fellowship Program.
| Clinical Skills | Teaching/Leadership | Research Activities | Administrative |
| Expert in physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect and PCF | Adult learning skills/techniques | Study design and methodology | Funding of child abuse assessments and programs |
| Forensic interview techniques | Bedside teaching | Statistics | Fund raising techniques |
| Forensic evidence collection | Lecture presentation skills | | Government lobbying techniques |
| Differential diagnosis skills relating to child abuse diagnoses | Community leadership/advocacy | | |
| Autopsy findings in abused children | Preparation of computer presentations (Powerpoint") | |
| Child abuse prevention strategies | Children's Hospital and University of Cincinnati Masters in Medical Education Program | | |
In addition to these skills, fellows will participate in the following activities
| Clinical Skills | Teaching/Leadership | Research Activities | Administrative |
| Children's Advocacy Center and Emergency Department examinations: 100-200 | Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati Faculty Development Course | Mayerson Center for Safe and Healthy Children study design and Research meetings | |
| Inpatient consultation service | Bedside teaching of pediatric residents and medical students in the clinic, Emergency Department and in-pt | | Member of center planning, budget and fund-raising committees |
| Emergency Department consultation for physical abuse | One-to-two national child abuse meetings | Presentation of one poster (minimum) at a national meeting |
| Forensic sexual assault exams | Presentation of four child abuse lectures (min) | | |
| Five-day training session at the Childhood Trust Forensic Interviewing Institute | Monthly community fatality review meetings | | |
| Attendance at autopsies of suspected child abuse deaths | Weekly Child Abuse Team meetings | | |
| Bi-weekly literature and book review, research study group | Computer instruction | | |
| Monthly internet peer-review sessions | | | |
| Supervised court testimony | | | |
| Participant in Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati community home visitation program | | |