
Sexual Violence in Adults for Doctors (3 units – multiple intakes for each)
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Accreditation
RACGP | ACRRM | ACN | ACEM |
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.
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