Physical Abuse and Neglect: A Training Curriculum

Coming in March is the first in GW Medical Publishing's series of accredited individual learning curricula for nurses and physicians. Physical Abuse and Neglect provides a fairly robust overview of child abuse in 8 chapters which can be submitted for a single certificate or completed individually and accredited in that fashion. The entire curriculum has been awarded 22 credits for both continuing nursing and medical education. A brief overview of the product can be found on our website.

I'm incredibly proud of this book - and not just because it's the first GW title to have my name in it! Physical Abuse and Neglect has some very substantial chapters on things like radiology, fractures, abusive head injuries, bruises and burns, and even chemical poisoning. It also has a chapter on neglect and emotional abuse, which definitely needs to be addressed. The curriculum is based on work by some of the leading authors in the field, and we at G.W. Medical Publishing are very happy to be putting it together.

Also, we've been listening to the input of doctors and nurses who've had an early look at the book, and this has lead to some interesting (for us) design decisions. We don't normally go in for wire bindings on larger books, but we're going to try some spiral business on this book. The idea is that it'll be easier for readers to flip through it and won't keep trying to pop shut. We're also going to put the images and such on a CD, to cut back on the page count for the spiral wire.