{"id":1558,"date":"2018-04-04T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T02:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2018-05-23T09:30:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T23:30:20","slug":"suspected-child-abuse-a-forensic-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2018\/04\/04\/suspected-child-abuse-a-forensic-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected child abuse: a forensic challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/263113440?app_id=122963\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 04 Apr 2018\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Television has brought forensic medicine into everyone\u2019s living room, but the reality of the discipline is far removed from these dramas.\u00a0 But what really is clinical forensic medicine and what is this discipline\u2019s role in the investigation of suspected child abuse? \u00a0Although the assessment of alleged abuse cases may seem straight forward, controversies exist that have major implications.\u00a0 Drawing on case material, the approach taken in a clinical forensic assessment of an alleged abused child will be discussed with consideration being given to the pitfalls of injury interpretation, the controversies, the reliance on specialist opinions, and how to ensure a successful outcome within the legal system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr John Gall<\/strong> is a forensic physician, an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, a consultant in the Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service and the current President of the International Association of Clinical Forensic Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Television has brought forensic medicine into everyone\u2019s living room, but the reality of the discipline is far removed from these dramas.  But what really is clinical forensic medicine and what is this discipline\u2019s role in the investigation of suspected child abuse?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12688,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vfpms","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1560,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions\/1560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}