Program Description
The Group on Violence Education and Prevention provides leadership within the discipline of Family Medicine to improve family physician training about the impact of interpersonal and family violence on the health and quality of life of their patients. The Group’s focus includes identifying strategies to help intervene with patients at high risk of victimization and perpetration of violence. Areas of concern include all aspects of family-relationship violence, gang and youth violence, violence toward disadvantaged and minority people, and violence toward women.
The purpose of this project is to create and disseminate model residency curricula to educate future family physicians in the prevention of interpersonal violence, including intimate partner violence, child abuse, peer violence, sexual assault, and other forms of interpersonal violence.