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Home to the Center for Disease Control, Atlanta is a city full of great minds focused on all issues related to public health. Despite this, a group of students and faculty at neighboring health professional schools including Emory School of Medicine, Emory’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, Georgia State University, Morehouse School of Medicine, Mercer University School of Medicine, and the Medical College of Georgia at August University, found that education and awareness around one...

Andrea Garroway recently joined TIHCER. She published the following article describing a brief interdisciplinary intervention to train medical residents in trauma-informed primary care at a Veterans Affairs hospital. See attached article. "We generated a trauma- informed care curriculum involving five 1- hour didactic sessions, 10- minute group reflection regarding patient interactions prior to each didactic session, and optional patient care observation and feedback."

This sounds like a fantastic project! Would love to hear more about the agenda for the day and about how such a large undertaking was coordinated.

This sounds wonderful- Alyssa I am planning something similar for the GWU medical students on 9/19. Would love to connect- my email is bchokshi@cnmc.org .

Hello TIHCER Members, Please let us know when you publish an article, book chapter, etc, record a presentation, have an experience and reflections to share with us, or you want to pose a question to the community for input and feedback. This is our trauma-informed care learning community and we want to hear from you! Let us know about your successes so that we can celebrate and learn from you!

Join us as we delve into the paradigm-shifting ethos of trauma-informed care with renowned expert Dr. Megan Gerber. Dr. Gerber is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and serves as Medical Director of Women’s Health for VA Boston where she directs the Women’s Health Fellowship. Dr. Gerber edited the textbook, “Trauma-informed Health Care Approaches: A Guide for Primary Care.” We discuss the framework for trauma-informed universal precautions, as well as bas

This is a great podcast!! I hope everyone gets a chance to listen and share!

(l-r) Judge J. Corpening; Ben David, district attorney, New Hanover County; Chief Justice Paul Newby; Judge Andrew Heath, executive director, Administrative Office of the Courts of the Chief Justice's ACEs Informed Courts Task Force. David and Heath serve as Task Force co-chairs . “There is not any more important work going on in the State of North Carolina,” said Ben David, District Attorney for New Hanover County and co-chair of the Chief Justice’s ACEs-Informed Task Force . The Task force...

The National Collaborative on Trauma-Informed Health Care, Education and Research (TIHCER) presents: Trauma-Informed Competency Set for Undergraduate Medical Education Trauma is nearly universal and a root cause of numerous health and social problems, including 6 of the 10 leading causes of death. Research has substantiated the profound impact of trauma on the brain and body - and why trauma training is critical to the education and practice of health professionals. Yet a critical lag...

Bravo and congrats to the whole TICHER crew for putting together a comprehensive foundational document to introduce the issues of child maltreatment, trauma, and TIC into the core of medical education. This is long overdue. It will result in a quantum improvement in both physical and mental health care outcomes for children and adults.