Clinical GuidesFeb
10
Teen Dating Violence 2012
February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment
February is Teen Dating Violence Prevention and Awareness Month. For those of you looking for an introduction to the issue, Break the Cycle is hosting a webinar on February 23rd, at 1pm ET: Empowering Youth to End Domestic Violence.
Feb
7
Routine Screening for Intimate Partner Violence
February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment
ACOG has released their Committee Opinion on Intimate Partner Violence (abstract only), and Medscape has an overview with accompanying CME (editorial note: Come on, Medscape, no nursing CEUs for this one?). The American Academy of Neurology has also released a position statement this month, although on the broader topic of abuse and violence. You can read [...]
Jan
11
Injury Grand Rounds from the CDC
January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Tuesday, January 17th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering the next in their Grand Rounds series: The Science Base for the Prevention of Injury and Violence. The live webcast will also be archived for 48 hours after the event. And if you’re interested in CEs, you can register for them here.
Jan
3
Connection Between DV and Stalking
January 3, 2012 | Leave a Comment
January is Stalking Awareness Month, and over at VAWNet, there’s a great overview on the connection between domestic violence and stalking. By all means, click on the citations, as well, which will take you to full text documents. Good points to support any argument for expanding dv screening to include stalking behaviors. And further reason [...]
Dec
30
Mandatory Reporting and Confidentiality
December 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Vera Institute of Justice is offering a webinar on January 17th as part of their Accessing Safety Initiative, which “promotes collaborations between disability and victim service organizations and enhances organizational capacity to serve Deaf survivors and survivors with disabilities”. The session, Mandatory Reporting and Confidentiality, will take place from 3-4:30 pm ET.
Dec
27
Screening for Domestic Violence
December 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Hope everyone has had a lovely holiday, thus far. I’m back in the office for the week (and actually at home for 2 entire weeks before the travel crazy begins anew), slogging through the emails and voicemails. Plenty of interesting stuff showed up in my inbox last week while I was on vacation, so I [...]
Nov
7
Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School
November 7, 2011 | 4 Comments
While my brain is very much consumed (and repulsed) by the details of the abuse–and rampant failures to report said abuse–at Penn State, it can be hard to remember there’s anything else going on in the world. But this report, by the AAUW, reminded me there’s plenty. Crossing the Line: Sexual Harassment at School ”…presents the [...]
Nov
3
Articles of Note: October/November 2011
November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment
It’s time once again for Articles Note. These are a selection from the late September, October and November peer-reviewed journals that feel particularly relevant to our practice. Remember, it’s in no way a comprehensive or exhaustive list, but it’s an excellent place to start. The majority of the links will take you to PubMed. There [...]
Nov
1
CMEs, Scary ED Visits and Plenty More Violence
November 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment
A few things that have been piled up in my inbox that are worth mentioning. The first is a new CME offering (and really, Medscape, you could only manage to make this one for docs?): Domestic Violence Intervention Improves Referral, Disclosure Rates, based on research published this month in The Lancet.
Sep
7
Advancing Sexual Health
September 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Stay tuned tomorrow for the winner of the latest giveaway… Just back from Italy where I spent a most magical week away from pretty much everything (no work email, no texting, no cell phone, no Twitter, no Facebook–and only once a day checking my personal email so I didn’t become completely unhinged). While I was [...]
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