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Are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? A survey of health professional education in Ontario, Canada
BACKGROUND: The current project undertook a province-wide survey and environmental scan of educational opportunities available to future health care providers on the topic of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. METHODS: A team of experts identified university and college programs in Ontar...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19575776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-9-34 |
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author | Wathen, C Nadine Tanaka, Masako Catallo, Cristina Lebner, Adrianne C Friedman, M Kinneret Hanson, Mark D Freeman, Clare Jack, Susan M Jamieson, Ellen MacMillan, Harriet L |
author_facet | Wathen, C Nadine Tanaka, Masako Catallo, Cristina Lebner, Adrianne C Friedman, M Kinneret Hanson, Mark D Freeman, Clare Jack, Susan M Jamieson, Ellen MacMillan, Harriet L |
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description | BACKGROUND: The current project undertook a province-wide survey and environmental scan of educational opportunities available to future health care providers on the topic of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. METHODS: A team of experts identified university and college programs in Ontario, Canada as potential providers of IPV education to students in health care professions at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. A telephone survey with contacts representing these programs was conducted between October 2005 and March 2006. The survey asked whether IPV-specific education was provided to learners, and if so, how and by whom. RESULTS: In total, 222 eligible programs in dentistry, medicine, nursing and other allied health professions were surveyed, and 95% (212/222) of programs responded. Of these, 57% reported offering some form of IPV-specific education, with undergraduate nursing (83%) and allied health (82%) programs having the highest rates. Fewer than half of undergraduate medical (43%) and dentistry (46%) programs offered IPV content. Postgraduate programs ranged from no IPV content provision (dentistry) to 41% offering content (nursing). CONCLUSION: Significant variability exists across program areas regarding the methods for IPV education, its delivery and evaluation. The results of this project highlight that expectations for an active and consistent response by health care professionals to women experiencing the effects of violence may not match the realities of professional preparation. |
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spelling | pubmed-27096162009-07-14 Are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? A survey of health professional education in Ontario, Canada Wathen, C Nadine Tanaka, Masako Catallo, Cristina Lebner, Adrianne C Friedman, M Kinneret Hanson, Mark D Freeman, Clare Jack, Susan M Jamieson, Ellen MacMillan, Harriet L BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: The current project undertook a province-wide survey and environmental scan of educational opportunities available to future health care providers on the topic of intimate partner violence (IPV) against women. METHODS: A team of experts identified university and college programs in Ontario, Canada as potential providers of IPV education to students in health care professions at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels. A telephone survey with contacts representing these programs was conducted between October 2005 and March 2006. The survey asked whether IPV-specific education was provided to learners, and if so, how and by whom. RESULTS: In total, 222 eligible programs in dentistry, medicine, nursing and other allied health professions were surveyed, and 95% (212/222) of programs responded. Of these, 57% reported offering some form of IPV-specific education, with undergraduate nursing (83%) and allied health (82%) programs having the highest rates. Fewer than half of undergraduate medical (43%) and dentistry (46%) programs offered IPV content. Postgraduate programs ranged from no IPV content provision (dentistry) to 41% offering content (nursing). CONCLUSION: Significant variability exists across program areas regarding the methods for IPV education, its delivery and evaluation. The results of this project highlight that expectations for an active and consistent response by health care professionals to women experiencing the effects of violence may not match the realities of professional preparation. BioMed Central 2009-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC2709616/ /pubmed/19575776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-9-34 Text en Copyright © 2009 Wathen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wathen, C Nadine Tanaka, Masako Catallo, Cristina Lebner, Adrianne C Friedman, M Kinneret Hanson, Mark D Freeman, Clare Jack, Susan M Jamieson, Ellen MacMillan, Harriet L Are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? A survey of health professional education in Ontario, Canada |
title | Are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? A survey of health professional education in Ontario, Canada |
title_full | Are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? A survey of health professional education in Ontario, Canada |
title_fullStr | Are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? A survey of health professional education in Ontario, Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | Are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? A survey of health professional education in Ontario, Canada |
title_short | Are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? A survey of health professional education in Ontario, Canada |
title_sort | are clinicians being prepared to care for abused women? a survey of health professional education in ontario, canada |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2709616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19575776 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-9-34 |
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