The curriculum presents child abuse interdisciplinary education as a model for the approach to family violence. It discusses the present exposure of physicians to family violence education at the graduate and continuing levels. The curriculum would discuss similarities, differences, unifying theories, and unifying practices related to the three forms of family violence. The paper discusses approaches for developing this type of curriculum for medical schools as well as other disciplines including child development, communications and information science, criminal justice, ethnic studies, family studies, law, nursing, political science, psychology, public administration, public health, social work, and sociology. The political and economic considerations of teaching about family violence are briefly discussed. 2 references