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Many online curricula are too brief and limited to meet the national recommendations on intimate partner violence training for health care practitioners. However, they are a convenient resource for clinicians who are currently not able to obtain more comprehensive education on the topic. All the curricula listed here have very good information and are based on the clinical guidelines recommended by national organizations like the AMA or the Family Violence Prevention Fund.

CME Curriculum online at Medline: Improving Screening of Women for Violence - Basic Guidelines for Physicians; Author: Lynne Stevens, MSW, http://www.medscape.com/viewprogram/2777.  This is a good resource, but briefer and more basic than the American Medical Women’s Association curriculum (see below).

CME Curriculum online at the American Medical Women’s Association: www.amwa-doc.org.  This is a very thorough, excellent curriculum. It includes some audio and video clips. The direct link is: http://amwa.velopers.net/index.cfm?objectId=9477951B-D567-0B25-59E570F52405870B

Curriculum online at the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses: www.awhonn.org . The information in this Violence Against Women (VAW) curriculum is general enough to be relevant for all health care clinicians. There is a print-out version that can serve as a resource article for your office. Go to Continuing Medical Education, then to Online Continuing Education. Or try the direct link: http://www.awhonn.org/awhonn/?pg=873-1970-52

Nursing Curriculum by the Practice Guidelines Committee of the Minnesota Healthcare Coalition. Very detailed curriculum that can be used in nursing schools or for continuing education. Note: This curriculum does meet the national recommendations on intimate partner violence training for health care practitioners.

http://www.mincava.umn.edu/documents/nursing/nursing.html

American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Work Group on the Prevention of Violence During Pregnancy. Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy: A Guide for Clinicians (Slide set) http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/drh/violence/ipvdp.htm . Brief and basic.

ACOG also offers: Domestic Elder Abuse: Practical Tools for Providers of Women's Health Care a slide lecture with 51 slides, speaker notes, a selected bibliography, and lists of resources. The slide lecture is designed as a training tool for clinicians to increase their understanding of the important role they can play in identifying, preventing, and reducing elder abuse. The slide lecture can be ordered by calling (800) 762-2264 ext 241, or outside the U.S. and Canada (304) 725-8410 ext 339; or online http://sales.acog.com.

Family Violence Prevention Fund Making the Connection: Domestic Violence and Public Health  
(Note: this is not a skills curriculum for clinical practice)

This set of 176-slides was developed by Linda Chamberlain, PhD, MPH from the Alaska Department of Public Health for people working in public health including local health departments, program managers, health policy makers and educators. It shows the connection between domestic violence and leading public health issues and offers research findings , strategies and promising practices for public health systems responses. The slide lectures on the following topics can be used individually or in combination

View these presentations online at http://endabuse.org/programs/display.php3?DocID=344

Or order the CD with accompanying guidebook at http://store.yahoo.com/fvpfstore/healpractool.html

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