Description

Ayesha Dholakia, MD

Pediatrics Resident
Boston Combined Residency Program, Leadership in Equity and Advocacy (LEAD) Track
Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center

 

Catherine Coughlin, MD

Emergency Medicine Fellow
Division of Emergency Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital

 

Katelin Blackburn, MD

Adolescent Medicine Fellow
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital

    

Brenna Chase, MD

Chief Resident in Pediatrics
Boston Combined Residency Program, Urban Health and Advocacy Track
Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center

 

Daniel O’Meara, MD

Pediatrics Resident
Boston Combined Residency Program
Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center

 

This video discusses trauma-informed care (TIC) for children by 1) defining trauma, 2) discussing the common types of traumatic events children can experience, 3) detailing core principles of trauma-informed care, and 4) providing recommendations for how to incorporate TIC into pediatric practice.
This content was created by OPENPediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical education platform for healthcare professionals. Please see www.openpediatrics.org for more information.

Learning Objectives: 

At the conclusion of this educational program, learners will be able to:

1. Recognize the ubiquitous nature of trauma
2. Identify the core tenets of trauma-informed care
3. Identify and utilize strategies to provide such care to our patients and families

In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician

Boston Children’s Hospital designates this live activity for a maximum of 0.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity.

Disclosure Policy 
Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CE activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

Disclosure Statement

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves, have reported the following relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients: