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Assessment of Suspected Physical Abuse in Children and Adolescents
25 - 26 August 2025
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The annual APAC workshop began in 2008, as one step towards filling a large hole in postgraduate clinical training. Many doctors lack confidence and experience in child protection. Many trainees embark on a consultant career with little hands-on experience in the management of suspected physical abuse. Most have received no specific training around the court experience, have never appeared as an expert witness and feel extremely nervous about doing so.
Those who diagnose child abuse should be well-trained, careful, objective and embedded in a multi-disciplinary process. Solo or idiosyncratic practice easily becomes unsafe. Although based on practice at Starship (a tertiary children’s hospital), we aim to model an approach adaptable to every clinical context. Contributors come from the fields of child protection paediatrics, forensic pathology, paediatric neuroradiology, paediatric ophthalmology, paediatric orthopaedics, paediatric radiology and plastic surgery. In addition, we use an international expert in child protection paediatrics as an external auditor and contributor. |
Dr Patrick Kelly
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The target audience is Advanced Trainees and Consultants in Paediatrics or related specialties (including Emergency Medicine and Surgical Specialties) where these cases form (or may form) a part of a doctor’s clinical responsibilities.
From 2008 to 2019, the annual workshop expanded from two to five days, in response to demand. Subjects include talking to families (using actors), documentation, working with statutory authorities, abdominal injuries, bruises, burns, fractures, head injuries, medical child abuse, neglect (including neglect of medical care) and writing reports and formal statements. Special attention is paid to the challenge of giving evidence in court, led by experienced criminal barristers.
The pandemic forced us to cancel in 2020, so in 2021 we went online, holding a very successful two-day virtual online live course in 2021, supported by 25 hours of online eLearning materials. The pre-Learning enabled us to focus our live virtual course even more than before on interactive and case-based learning, and the online format increased our ability to accept registrants who may otherwise have struggled to attend a five day face-to-face course.
In 2025, we will hold the course in-person on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 August 2025. There will also be an option for registrants to attend either face-to-face or virtually. There will be approximately 30-35 hours of online eLearning, which will become available 10 weeks before the live course. We recommend you allocate 3-4 hours per week working your way through the preLearning prior to the course. If unable to do that, consider whether you might be able to take some CME leave for the preLearning, as well as two days for the live course. However, we also recognise the pressure that everyone is under, so the preLearning materials (and the recordings of the live sessions) will remain available to you online for 12 months after the course and will be downloadable as high-quality pdf files.
The workshop is recognised by the Specialist Advisory Committee in General Paediatrics of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians as a child protection course suitable for advanced trainees in general paediatrics. Trainees from other professional disciplines have also attended the course and found it very helpful.
We look forward to your participation.
Dr Patrick Kelly
Paediatrician | Te Puaruruhau | Starship Child Health
From 2008 to 2019, the annual workshop expanded from two to five days, in response to demand. Subjects include talking to families (using actors), documentation, working with statutory authorities, abdominal injuries, bruises, burns, fractures, head injuries, medical child abuse, neglect (including neglect of medical care) and writing reports and formal statements. Special attention is paid to the challenge of giving evidence in court, led by experienced criminal barristers.
The pandemic forced us to cancel in 2020, so in 2021 we went online, holding a very successful two-day virtual online live course in 2021, supported by 25 hours of online eLearning materials. The pre-Learning enabled us to focus our live virtual course even more than before on interactive and case-based learning, and the online format increased our ability to accept registrants who may otherwise have struggled to attend a five day face-to-face course.
In 2025, we will hold the course in-person on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 August 2025. There will also be an option for registrants to attend either face-to-face or virtually. There will be approximately 30-35 hours of online eLearning, which will become available 10 weeks before the live course. We recommend you allocate 3-4 hours per week working your way through the preLearning prior to the course. If unable to do that, consider whether you might be able to take some CME leave for the preLearning, as well as two days for the live course. However, we also recognise the pressure that everyone is under, so the preLearning materials (and the recordings of the live sessions) will remain available to you online for 12 months after the course and will be downloadable as high-quality pdf files.
The workshop is recognised by the Specialist Advisory Committee in General Paediatrics of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians as a child protection course suitable for advanced trainees in general paediatrics. Trainees from other professional disciplines have also attended the course and found it very helpful.
We look forward to your participation.
Dr Patrick Kelly
Paediatrician | Te Puaruruhau | Starship Child Health
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