Continuing Medical Education Courses
The 2006 Patterson Lecture: Long-Term Health Effects of Childhood Sexual Abuse
May 19, 2006
Wood Auditorium, UT Medical Center
Knoxville , Tennessee
Credits available from AMA and AAPA, and CEUs available.
Childhood abuse can have profound long-term effects on both mental and physical health. It is very important for primary care physicians and other professionals to be able to identify when such abuse has taken place, discuss this with their patients, and understand and deal with the consequences effectively.
Featured speaker at the Patterson lecture is
W. Perry Dickinson, M.D.
Professor of Family Medicine and Director of Research
Department of Family Medicine
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Denver , Colorado
Objective
At the conclusion of this conference, participants should be able to improve their method of care by understanding that patients with a history of sexual abuse have more physical and psychiatric symptoms and lower health-related quality of life than those without previous abuse.
Who should attend?
- Academicians
- Counselors
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Mental Health Providers
- Nurses
- OB/GYN
- Pediatrics
- Physician Assistants
- Psychology
- Public Health
- Trauma
Accreditation
AMA: 2 AMA PRA Category 1 credits
AAPA: Accepts credits from AOACCME, AAFP, AMA for the PRA
CEU: .2 credits 
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