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Multidisciplinary child-protection case conference — OSCE
OSCE station: a registrar preparing for a child-protection case conference, explaining the process to a concerned colleague and articulating the paediatrician's role, the report standard, and the information-sharing principles.
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You are the senior paediatric registrar. A junior colleague has been invited to their first multidisciplinary child-protection case conference for a 3-year-old with inflicted injuries. They come to you anxious and unsure: 'I don't really know what a case conference is, what I'm supposed to prepare, or what happens when the family is there.' [1] [5]
You have 8 minutes to explain the purpose of the conference, what your colleague should prepare, how to handle the verbal presentation and questions, and the principles of information sharing. [11]
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- [1]Gilbert R, Kemp A, Thoburn J, Sidebotham P, Radford L, Glaser D, MacMillan HL Recognising and responding to child maltreatment. Lancet, 2009.PMID 19056119
- [2]Cowley LE, Maguire SA, Farewell DM, Kemp AM Factors influencing child protection professionals' decision-making and multidisciplinary collaboration in suspected abusive head trauma cases: a qualitative study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 2018.PMID 29913434
- [5]Lo WC, Fung GP, Cheung PC Factors associated with multidisciplinary case conference outcomes in children admitted to a regional hospital in Hong Kong with suspected child abuse: a retrospective case series with internal comparison. Hong Kong Medical Journal, 2017.PMID 28416733
- [11]Kirk CB, Lucas-Herald A, Mok J Child protection medical assessments: why do we do them? Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2010.PMID 19846995