IMPROVING THE HEALTH CARE RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A SEMINAR SERIES FOR PRIMARY CARE RESIDENTS. K. Riordan 1 , S. Love 1 , C. Warshaw 1 , S. Glick 2 ; 1 Chicago Abused Women Coalition, Chicago, IL; 2 Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Illinois OBJECTIVES: Violence against women has been increasingly recognized as a major public health problem. Despite this, many physicians still find it difficult to ask patients about abuse. A major barrier that health care providers face in effectively identifying and treating victims of abuse is a lack of training on the prevalence and impact of domestic violence, ways to intervene appropriately and how to access available resources. We integrated an innovative 8-week seminar series on domestic violence into our primary care residency training. The goals of our curriculum were to enable residents to: 1) understand the prevalence and dynamics of domestic violence; 2) identify the impact of domestic violence on women's physical and psychological health; 3) develop culturally respectful intervention skills to identify and assist abused patients; and 4) identify resources available to victims of abuse.