The California Clinical Forensic Medical Training Center (CCFMTC), which operates in cooperation with the state Office of Emergency Services, conducts instructional programs for medical personnel in seven discrete program modules. CCFMTC teaches health-care personnel how to identify and document injuries resulting from abuse, neglect and violence, as well as how to collaborate and comply with the needs of social services and law enforcement agencies and criminal justice system requirements.
In addition, CCFMTC has designed instructional programs for medical personnel, social workers, victim advocates, law enforcement officers and other professionals who may be summoned to give testimony in courtroom criminal proceedings.
CCFMTC programs are:
- Child Physical Abuse: learn how to identify, evaluate and treat victims of child physical abuse and neglect.
- Child Sexual Abuse: learn how to identify, evaluate and treat pediatric victims of sexual abuse and neglect.
- Sexual Assault: learn fundamental forensic medical techniques for examination of adult and adolescent victims of sexual assault.
- Courtroom Communication: prepare to testify as an expert witness in cases involving child abuse, sexual assault, domestic violence, and elder abuse.
- Forensic Photography: learn digital photography techniques that physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, physician assistants, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and others can use to document physical effects of violence for use as evidence in criminal justice proceedings.
- Domestic Violence: learn techniques that a wide range of professionals can use for diagnosis, management and care of individuals who are victims of domestic violence.
- Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse: learn how to examine and evaluate elder and dependent adults for indications of abuse and neglect.
Presented by: California Clinical Forensic Medical Training Center, University of California Davis Medical Center
Sponsored by: UC Davis Health System, UC Davis Office of Continuing Medical Education
