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Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect
Education Overview
Child abuse and neglect is an important component of the pediatric clerkship curriculum for third-year medical students at the University of Colorado Denver. The faculty at The Children's Hospital provide a lecture on basic child abuse principles as part of the pediatric clerkship's core lecture series and participate in a simulated child abuse patient evaluation as part of the clerkship.
An elective in Child Abuse and Neglect is available for fourth-year medical students who have completed a pediatric clerkship. The course is designed to educate students who are pursuing primary care or psychiatry residency in both the basic and more advanced principles of child abuse and neglect. Students participate in all activities of the Child Protection Team at The Children's Hospital and the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect, including a busy outpatient sexual abuse evaluation clinic and inpatient and emergency department physical abuse consultation service.
Training for residents in child abuse and neglect involves the clinical faculty at The Children's Hospital and the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect. Lectures on many aspects of child abuse are part of the pediatric residency curriculum. Intensive clinical training and experience in the medical and psychosocial aspects of child abuse occur throughout the three years of residency. An elective rotation with The Kempe Child Protection Team is available in the second or third year. Residents participate in all activities of the Child Protection Team, including a busy outpatient sexual abuse evaluation clinic and inpatient and emergency department physical abuse consultation service.
The University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics, The Children's Hospital, and the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect offer a two- to three-year post-residency fellowship in child abuse and neglect.
The goal of the fellowship is to provide physicians who are board eligible or board certified in pediatrics with in-depth and intensive training in child abuse and neglect that will prepare them for a clinical or academic career dedicated to the field of Child Abuse Pediatrics, which is a newly recognized board-eligible ABP subspecialty.
Training Services
In addition to providing education for medical students, pediatric residents and child psychiatry residents, the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect contracts with the Colorado Department of Human Services to provide competency-based training on:
- Medical Aspects of Child Maltreatment
- Developmental Consequences of Child Maltreatment
- Maternal Substance Abuse
- Interdisciplinary Case Conflict
- Treatment Planning for Abused Children
- Consistency in Child Abuse Evaluations
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