About this event

  • Date and time Thu 22 Sep 2022 from 10:00am to 6:00pm
  • Location Live stream - online
  • Organised by Military Medicine

This live stream meeting provides an opportunity for medics to gain a deeper understanding of the science of firearms, armour and ballistic wounding.

To attend this event in person, please click here.

During this session you will:

  • Learn how to interpret and predict wounding severity using knowledge of bullet and firearm design
  • Understand how to avoid corrupting physical evidence gained in clinical treatment during forensic investigations 
  • Gain more expert advice to NHS Trusts/chain of command on response to, and planning for firearm incidents

This is a lecture-based program with experts from Defence and Home Office scientific agencies, arms industry and medics from Defence and the Metropolitan Police Specialist Firearms Command.

Military, civilian and police medics will find this meeting particularly insightful. 

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Ballistics: Firearms, forensics, bullets and armour in 2021

This meeting provides an opportunity for medics to gain a deeper understanding of the science of firearms, armour and ballistic wounding. This is a lecture-based program with experts from Defence and Home Office scientific agencies, arms industry and medics from the Met Specialist Firearms Command and Defence.

  • Location Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close on Thursday 22 September 2022 at 08:00am. Late registrations will not be accepted. 

The agenda is subject to change at any time  

All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations. 

We are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. This is at the presenter and the RSM’s discretion. 

This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels. 

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