Facebook
X
LinkedIn
ForwardMedical Training (November 13, 2025)
To register for this course please contact Jennifer McCaffrey - [email protected]
Have you ever wondered what happens in the medical exam room at a Children's Advocacy Center (CAC)? Questioned whether you should refer a family to the CAC, Emergency Department, or their Pediatrician? This training is for you! Join us to learn more about what happens after a child is referred for a forensic medical exam. This training is appropriate for all multidisciplinary partners and community pediatricians who might make a referral for a forensic medical exam. Dr. Sasha Svendsen will be joined by a panel of MDT partners (Law Enforcement, Child Welfare & Mental Health) to further explore how each discipline can benefit from the forensic medical exam.
Target Audience
Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Law Enforcement, Victim Advocates, Lawyers, Child Welfare Workers, Pediatricians, Nuses, and Medical Staff
Learning Objectives
After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
- Identify the components of a forensic medical evaluation for sexual abuse.
- Outline the factors that contribute to triaging the urgency of the forensic medical evaluation.
- Describe the value of the forensic medical evaluation for each of the MDT disciplines.
- Discuss the importance and ability of all MDT members to competently communicate the significance of the medical evaluation to children and their caregivers.
Faculty
Sasha Svendsen, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
UMass Chan Medical School - Baystate
Child Abuse Pediatrician, Division Chief of Child Protection
UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center
Name of Individual | Individual's Role in Activity | Financial Relationship Disclosure | Discussion of |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sasha Svendsen, MD | Faculty | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Faculty Disclosure
The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education (CE) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options. Any relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the educational activity.
None of the planners or faculty for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Baystate Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Psychologists
Baystate Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content. A maximum of 1.50 CE credit(s) for psychologists have been granted for this educational activity.
Social Workers (ASWB)
As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Baystate Health is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organization, not individual courses are approved under this program.
Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive a maximum of 1.50 continuing education credit(s).
Mental Health Counselors
Baystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider, (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. The ACEP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. (ACEP #5684)
Mental Health Counselors completing this course receives a maximum of 1.50 clock hours.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team and learners will receive 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 1.50 APA American Psychological AssociationBaystate Health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baystate Health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- 1.50 ASWB Continuing Education Credit(s)
- 1.50 IPCE Credit Hour(s)
- 1.50 NBCCBaystate Health is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC approved clock hours for events that meet NBC requirements. The ACEP solely responsible for all aspects of the program.