Sexual Assault in an Adolescent Female: A Pediatric Simulation Case for Emergency Medicine Providers.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Many emergency medicine (EM) physicians have limited training in the care of sexual assault patients. Simulation is an effective means to increase the confidence and knowledge of physicians in such high-stakes, low-frequency clinical scenarios as sexual assault. We sought to develop and implement a sexual assault simulation with a structured debriefing for EM residents and to determine its impact on resident learners' attitudes and knowledge skills in the care of patients with sexual assault.

Methods

The simulation blended psychomotor skills (e.g., collecting forensic evidence), cognitive skills (e.g., ordering laboratory studies and medications), and communication skills (e.g., obtaining relevant patient history, responding to psychosocial concerns raised by te

SUBMITTER: Bechtel K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7449576 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature