Curriculum
At Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the Child Abuse Elective candidate is required to participate in the following activities:
- Participate in all inpatient child abuse consultations.
- Observe outpatient sexual abuse evaluations in the advocacy center patients (instruction in exam technique and colposcope use).
- Participate in failure-thrive evaluations.
- Engage in chart review and evaluation of suspected Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
- Observe interviewing sessions with social workers from Cincinnati Children's and the U.S. Department of Health Services.
- Attend weekly multidisciplinary team meeting and radiology rounds.
- Participate in child psychiatry rounds.
- Attend biweekly Child Abuse Team journal club and research meetings.
- Attend Shaken Baby Syndrome Clinic.
- Observe home visits with Every Child Succeeds.
- Observe testimony given in juvenile or criminal court.
- Meet weekly with child abuse elective directors.
- Prepare and deliver a presentation to the Child Abuse Team about child abuse.
In addition, the candidate may opt to participate in these activities:
- Attend monthly Child Fatality Review Team meetings.
- Observe the autopsy of a child homicide.
- Attend Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati Morbidity / Mortality rounds.
- Observe child abuse investigative and prevention activities of the police and social workers from the U.S. Department of Health Services.
The Child Abuse Team also provides independent learning materials for candidates, including CD-ROM exercises, readings and case files.
