Overview

The Protective Services Team invites all professionals whose work involves interaction with child abuse and neglect to the 2018 annual symposium.

This is a continuing education event designed to educate physicians and professionals from all disciplines who care for children. Presented by internationally and nationally known experts in the area of child maltreatment and sponsored by Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, this symposium aims to help medical and other professionals expand their knowledge about child maltreatment.

Read about this year's speakers.

See the Symposium's agenda.

Date, Time & Location

Date: The Symposium will be held over the course of two days, from October 11 - 12, 2018
Time: 8 a.m. through 4:45 p.m. each day.
Location: Lurie Children's Conference Center, 11th floor, 225 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago. See a map of our location.

 

Parking

Parking is available in the Huron-Superior garage, located at 225 E. Huron, or the Erie-Ontario garage, located at 321 E. Erie.

For more parking information, please visit luriechildrens.org/locations.
 

• Identify how abusive head trauma (AHT) has been gradually recognized as an entity affecting infants and young children.
• Recognize the social media outlets children are using most.
• Recognize the basic admissibility rules courts employ to evaluate expert evidence.
• Recognize a family's hospital experience- what you say and how you say it can make a difference.
• Understand imaging work-up and protocols to detect child abuse.
• Analyze how the burden of violence in Chicago disproportionately impacts youth of color.
• Identify the range of physical, psychological and behavioral consequences of childhood abuse.
• Differentiate between adult and juvenile sexual offender behavioral characteristics.
• Recognize the changes in health care which are driving telemedicine innovations.
• Review how psychological trauma impacts child development and behavior to develop a “trauma lens."
• Describe a family's hospital experience- what you say and how you say it can make a difference.
• Recall a definition of Medical Child Abuse that simplifies understanding of this form of child maltreatment.

Accreditation Statement: The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement: The Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 

Note: Continuing social work education credit and continuing legal education credit will be also available.
 

The Maltreatment Symposium spans two days, Thursday, October 11 through Friday, October 12. Attendees have the option of attending one or both days. Please make your selection below, (ensuring that you have only checked off one item below), then click on the "Add to Basket" button that will appear at the bottom of your screen.