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Recognising and Responding to Sexual Violence in Adults – Public Health and Preventive Medicine (monash.edu)

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Accreditation

Who should attend?

Each Unit is designed for medical practitioners, nurses, midwives, and other health professionals who care for patients who may have experienced sexual violence.

Unit 1 – Sexual Violence: Drivers and Impacts

Unit 1 will provide an evidence-based overview of sexual violence prevalence, drivers, short- and long-term impacts on individuals and the community and an overview of justice responses.

Learning Outcomes:

• Determine indicators of sexual violence and assess patient risk.
• Determine short and long-term health impacts of sexual violence and incorporate into patient management
• Integrate impacts of vicarious trauma and unconscious bias into self-care and patient care management.
• Integrate discussion on the role of police, the justice system and confidentiality into patient reporting options.

Doctor Intakes commencing:  28 March / 23 May / 20 June

Unit 2 – Responding to Sexual Violence in Adults

Unit 2 focuses on the patient consultation, medical care and documentation and referrals.

Learning Outcomes:

• Prioritise and integrate the complex elements of sexual violence disclosures into patient care
• Construct a trauma-informed patient management plan for patients who disclose sexual violence
• Identify the key ethical, medical, and forensic issues that need to be addressed in patients disclosing sexual violence

Doctor Intakes commencing:  30 May / 25 July / 15 August

Unit 3 – Responding to Sexual Violence in At-Risk Patients

Unit 3 covers immediate and long-term care for individuals who are known to be at a higher risk of experiencing sexual violence.

Learning Outcomes:

• Identify forms of sexual violence experienced by at-risk patients and address barriers to disclosure.
• Apply and integrate understanding of intersectionality and response frameworks into healthcare for patients from at-risk cohorts who disclose sexual violence.
• Formulate patient-focused healthcare for at-risk patients who have experienced sexual violence.
• Evaluate patient needs and apply understanding of psycho-social support services to provide referrals that address a patient’s complex and diverse needs and pathway for recovery.

Doctor Intakes commencing: 1 August  / 19 September / 10 October

The curriculum is patient-centred and recognises and addresses the risk of vicarious trauma for health practitioners in caring for victim/survivors of sexual violence.

The program is designed to be practical and the practice-focused units will include a Sexual Assault Response Resource developed by specialist forensic medical practitioners. This guideline will support workplace operationalisation of course learning.