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What’s New2021-2022 Educational Webcast Series The next webcast series will begin in the fall. All webcasts begin at noon, Eastern Time. These webcasts are free and offer CMEs ( 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit TM). Registration forms and details about the October webcast will be available on this page in early September. 2021 October 13 November 17 December 8 2022 January 12 February 9 March 9 
Practice Recommendations The Skeletal Survey has been revised and is now available. The newly revised CHAMP Skeletal Survey Practice Recommendation contains a recommendation overview, a table of required radiographs, age-based recommendations, as well as guidance on special considerations such as specific injuries and sexual abuse, follow-up skeletal surveys, and bone scintigraphy. In addition, there is a 42-entry annotated bibliography that has active links to many of these resources, including links to the practice recommendations of the Royal College of Radiologists, the Society and College of Radiographers, the American College of Radiology and Society for Pediatric Radiology, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as Development of Guidelines for Skeletal Survey in Young Children with Fractures, and Imaging of Non-accidental Injury; What is Clinical Best Practice? There is also an appendix with sample letters to the primary care provider upon hospital discharge after a workup for suspected physical abuse. Revised Skeletal Survey (March 2021) PDF Here is a list of all the CHAMP Practice Recommendations that you can download from our Practice Recommendations page: Evaluation Guidelines for Suspected Child Physical Abuse (May 2017)
Caring with Compassion Course Taking care of ourselves is essential for the unique role we play as a Child Abuse Medical Professional. Mandy A. O’Hara, MD, MPH, TCTSY-F, a board certified child abuse pediatrician, a CHAMP Mentor and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University Medical Center, has developed the course Caring with Compassion. It provides the opportunity to pause, reflect, and expand your self-knowledge and perspective. It is an opportunity to deepen your self-compassion. Accompanying this course is a 12-minute Trauma Sensitive Yoga Chair Practice video as a step to begin addressing secondary traumatic stress that is often held in the body. Explore these opportunities by clicking on this Caring with Compassion link.
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