Paeds Vivas · preventive-and-community-paediatrics
Adolescent preventive health care — branching viva
Branching viva on time alone, confidentiality, HEADSS/HEEADSSS, screens, safety overrides and transition.
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Prompt
You are the paediatric registrar in adolescent clinic. The examiner will move from visit structure to HEADSS, screens, a suicide disclosure and transition.
Stem
The examiner will test whether you can run a youth-friendly preventive visit under pressure. [1] [4]
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- [2]Ford CA Delivery of confidentiality assurances to adolescents by primary care physicians. Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine, 1997.PMID 9158445
- [3]Miller VA Adolescents Spending Time Alone With Pediatricians During Routine Visits: Perspectives of Parents in a Primary Care Clinic. The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2018.PMID 29887486
- [4]Chung RJ Confidentiality in the Care of Adolescents: Policy Statement. Pediatrics, 2024.PMID 38646690
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- [8]Knight JR Effect of Computer-Based Substance Use Screening and Brief Behavioral Counseling vs Usual Care for Youths in Pediatric Primary Care: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA network open, 2019.PMID 31225897
- [9]Pasternak RH 21st Century Cures Act ONC Rule: Implications for Adolescent Care and Confidentiality Protections. Pediatrics, 2023.PMID 37010402