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Youth violence, risky behaviour and injury prevention — branching viva
Branching viva on the public-health approach, prevention tiering, lethal-means counselling, dating-violence safety, and confidentiality overrides.
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Prompt
You are the paediatric registrar in a youth-friendly clinic. The examiner will move from the public-health philosophy, to prevention tiering, to a firearm disclosure, to a dating-violence safety plan, and to a confidentiality dilemma.
Stem
The examiner will test whether you can defend the public-health approach to youth violence and injury prevention and run it under pressure. [1] [3]
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