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Ã山ǿ¼é’s Office for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) invites you to a half-day workshop on Identifying and Addressing Sexual Violence in Children and Teens. The content was developed to meet the learning needs of physicians, and other healthcare professionals who provide medical care to children and teens.

Date: Wednesday November 20th, 2024

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Location: Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning, 3575 Parc Ave, Suite 5640, Montreal, Qc H2X 3P9

Space is limited – To register, .

Workshop Overview

• Simulation activity- interviews with simulated patients, including opportunity for audience participation.
• Interactive presentations on diagnostic challenges in the pediatric age group.
• Multi-disciplinary panel discussions with our team of experts.
• The workshop will be delivered in English with bilingual discussion welcome.
• Participants will receive a certificate of attendance.
• Lunch will be served at the beginning of the workshop.

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Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of these presentations, participants will be able to:

Presentation #1: Standard of care and Medicolegal exam for child or teen who was sexually assaulted or abused

• Describe the initial approach to the pediatric patient who discloses or whose parent discloses possible sexual abuse and how to ensure the approach is developmentally appropriate.
• State the difference between standard of care and the medicolegal exam in pediatric patients presenting after alleged sexual abuse.
• Explain who meets criteria for the medicolegal exam and where to refer their patient.

Presentation #2: Could this child or teen be sexually abused? Diagnostic challenges in the pediatric age group

• Recognize variants of prepubertal genital anatomy.
• Identify conditions, both common and rarer, that can mimic sexual abuse.
• Describe the presentation of sexual abuse in children and teens.

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Credits

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• Certified/accredited for up to 4 Mainpro+® and MOC Section 1 (Group Learning Activity) credits.
• CMQ: maximum of 4 Section A Recognized Hours.
• 4-hour workshop eligible for RAMQ reimbursement as a certified professional development activity (/) for eligible family physicians and specialists in Quebec.
• Additional information on Annexe 19 and Formulaire 4188:Ìý

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CanMEDS Framework

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During this course, the following CanMEDS competencies will be covered:

• Medical expert: As Medical Experts, physicians integrate all of the CanMEDS Roles, providing high quality, responsive, community-adaptive care across the lifecycle, from applying medical knowledge, clinical skills, and professional values in their provision of high-quality and compassionate safe patient-centred care.
• Collaborator: Essential for safe, high-quality, patient-centred care, physicians work in unison with patients, families, communities, and other health care providers.
• Health Advocate: As Health Advocates, physicians work and contribute their expertise in partnership with patient populations and communities to improve health care through an understanding of needs, as agents of change, and the mobilization of resources.
• Communicator: Physicians foster therapeutic relationships with patients and their families that facilitate the gathering and sharing of essential information for effective patient health care.
• Leader: Physicians actively engage with others to contribute to implementing and maintaining a high-quality health care system, and take responsibility for delivering excellent patient care through their activities as clinicians, administrators, scholars, and/or teachers.
• Professional: As Professionals, physicians are committed to the health and well-being of their individual patients and society through competent medical practice, ethical practice, accountability to the profession, profession-led regulation and maintenance of personal health.
• Scholar: As Scholars, physicians demonstrate a lifelong commitment to excellence in practice through continuous learning and teaching others, gathering, combining, and evaluating evidence, and contributing to the creation and dissemination of knowledge.