Child Abuse Pediatrics (Clinical Elective)

2 units

The medical student will work with the Child Protection Program (CPP) at St. Louis Children's Hospital, which consists of two Child Abuse Pediatrics attending physicians, a Pediatric nurse practitioner, a clinic nurse, and social workers. Pediatric residents or Pediatric Emergency Medicine fellows also may be rotating with the team at the same time. The student will observe inpatient consults for physical and sexual abuse and outpatient clinic patients for physical and sexual abuse. The student may attend court cases (off campus) and watch expert witness testimony by the CPP physicians/nurse practitioner. The student may attend Fatality Review meetings (off campus). The student will observe a forensic interview at the Child Advocacy Center (off campus). The student may see acute sexual assault cases conducted by the Sexual Assault (SANE) nurse practitioners in the Emergency Department. The student will be asked to complete a short project on a topic related to child maltreatment and will present it to the team at the end of the rotation. The student will be given a list of readings/didactic activities to do during the rotation. The student will have daily (45 minute) lectures with one of the child abuse attending physicians on a variety of topics related to child maltreatment and will attend the Child Protection team meeting (1 hour) every day. The student can also attend Pediatric Residency noon conference during this rotation.