Feb

1

Free Online Violence Prevention Course

February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment

The CDC has a free, online violence prevention course available at their VetoViolence site: Principles of Prevention. It includes 1.7 hours of continuing educations for nurses; 1.75 for physicians.

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Jan

11

Injury Grand Rounds from the CDC

January 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Tuesday, January 17th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering the next in their Grand Rounds series: The Science Base for the Prevention of Injury and Violence. The live webcast will also be archived for 48 hours after the event. And if you’re interested in CEs, you can register for them here.

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Jan

10

Bath Salts

January 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment

I had a reader send me a question regarding bath salts, which she reports is increasingly common in her emergency department. She asked if there was any decent info out there to share with colleagues, since most of what’s on the internet is of unknown quality, or is an actual how-to (either make or obtain). [...]

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Nov

22

Medscape Roundup

November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment

I was perusing Medscape last night and noticed there are several items that may be worth your time, including several CE and CME offerings from October and November: Vodka Tampons to Get Drunk (Chief Complaint Blog) Sexual History of Adolescents in the Emergency Department (CME) (more after the jump)

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Sep

21

Treatment Recommendations for Sexually Abused Adult Patients

September 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Medscape has a CE offering for physicians and nurses: Treatment Recommendations for Sexually Abused Adult Patients. This is based on the article mentioned in this post (where you can download the pdf of the full text article free). The CEs are free, but you have to register with the site to access the article.

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Sep

2

Women and Children with HIV/AIDS

September 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Don’t miss our current giveaway. Get all of the details here to enter. Although not specific to forensic clinical issues, HIV/AIDS is important to understand–not just in terms of exposure, but also in terms of the realities for our patients who have been diagnosed. The National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center has a really well-done tutorial, Women [...]

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Jul

7

Adolescent/Adult Web Based SAFE Training and Clinical Workshop

July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Can I tell you how long I have been waiting to get to post this? It is with great excitement that I can announce IAFN’s free adolescent/adult web-based SAFE training and clinical workshop (clinical workshop, people! How amazing is that?). Full details after the jump.

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Jun

30

Nurse Expert Witness: The Basics and Beyond

June 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Oh, I do love a good expert witness webinar. And IAFN and AALNC are offering a joint one Auguts 17th at 3pm ET, The Nurse Expert Witness: The Basics and Beyond (plus they’re offering CEUs). Registration’s not yet open for this event, but it’s worth getting on your calendar, and I will update the page [...]

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Mar

17

Challenges in Investigating Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault

March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment

I meant to get this up last week when it first came across my desk: RTI International is offering a live, web-based course, Challenges in Investigating DFSA. Marc LeBeau, one of my favorite toxicologists, is teaching it, so it should be a good use of time. There are 3 sessions currently offered; the course runs [...]

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Feb

24

Conference on Crimes Against Women

February 24, 2011 | 4 Comments

I promised my dear friend Jan Langbein that I would make mention of the upcoming multidisciplinary Conference on Crimes Against Women, March 28-30 in Dallas, TX. We will actually be putting on a forensic healthcare track this year for the 1st time (I’ll be accompanied by the always fabulous Jennifer Pierce-Weeks and Tara Henry), with topics [...]

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