About this event
- Date and time Sat 12 Nov 2022 from 9:15am to 4:10pm
- Location Online
- Organised by Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine
In the 21st century, many clinicians will interact with aspects of our legal system. Join this meeting to understand the basics of what any clinician should know about clinical forensic and legal medicine, by providing an overview of the diverse ways in which medicine and law interface.
Learn how to write a statement or report for Court and document injury correctly. Also, understand what to do if you are required in the Coroners Court, requested to write a report for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), and what it means when the police officer says: ‘It’s a drink-drive hospital procedure, doctor’.
Participants will:
- Understand what is required in HM Coroner’s Court
- Learn how to document injury correctly
- Know what to do when police request the ‘hospital procedure’
- Explain what to do when writing a statement or report for Court
Our Autumn Section meeting has been combined with the Students and Trainees meeting to mark the 35th anniversary of the Section.
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Agenda
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Welcome and introduction
Dr Bernadette Butler, President, Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine, Royal Society of Medicine
Tribute to the late Dr Neville Davis, MBE
Dr Bernadette Butler
Casualty: How to accurately document injuries
Professor Jason Payne-James, Specialist in Forensic and Legal Medicine and Consultant Forensic Physician Lead Medical Examiner, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
DUI – drink or drugs/hospital or police station?
Professor Margaret Stark, Consultant Forensic Physician, Honorary Professor Teesside University, Chairman Forensic Science Sub-Committee
Comfort break
The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority
Professor Ian Wall, Consultant Forensic Physician, Specialist in Forensic and Legal Medicine, Consultant Forensic Physician Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, Visiting Professor, Teesside University
A life interrupted: Sexual assault, what every clinician should know
Dr Helena Thornton, Forensic Physician, St Mary’s Sexual Manchester
Comfort break
The role of the medical examiner
Dr Alex Gorton, Forensic Physician and Emergency Medicine
The good, the bad and the ugly, or multiple jeopardy
Dr John Holden, Chief Medical Officer, Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland
Comfort break
The coroner
Mr Sean Horstead, His Majesty Coroner, Essex County Council
The statement: What to do when you are asked for one
Dr Emmeline Brew-Graves, Sexual Offences Examiner, Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Close of meeting
Location
Online
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