SEXUAL ASSAULT RESPONSE TEAM TRAINING PROGRAM
Sheraton Crystal City Hotel
Crystal City VA 22202
Phone: 888-627-8209
Website: http://www.afip.org/Departments/edu/coursehtm/07assaultfs.htm
Date: 2007-04-23 00:00:00.0
Duration: 5 Days
Sponsor: AFIP
Sponsor URL: www.afip.org

Description:
This program is designed for health care personnel (officer, enlisted and civilian) desiring education and training in performing sexual assault examinations. In addition, chaplains, investigators, law enforcement, mental health care workers, sexual assault victim advocates, and persons from other disciplines who wish to have an increased understanding of the sexual assault examination, and to provide a multidisciplinary approach to sexual assault care and the medicolegal process may attend. This course will include laboratory sessions to introduce sexual assault forensic examination techniques, forensic photography, documentation and physical evidence collection. Lectures will provide medicolegal insight to identify and preserve the biological, psychological and social health of the survivor of sexual assault or abuse. This program also satisfies the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) national standard requirements for the didactic component of the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) certification process. A separate clinical preceptorship must be completed in conjunction with the didactic portion in order to sit for the SANE certification exam. Requirements for the clinical preceptorship will be covered in the program.