The teaching of legal medicine in Australasia

Beran, Roy G.

doi:10.1016/j.jcfm.2006.09.001

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“…2 It sought to provide an umbrella organisation, as a specialised medical College servicing the needs of those in legal and forensic medicine, to offer leadership and educational direction to its membership. 1 The Council of the College felt that the time had arrived when it was appropriate to evaluate the purpose and direction of the College. It was considered opportune to conduct a plebiscite of the membership to determine whether the aims and orientation of the College remained apposite to the needs and aspirations of the members.…”

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Membership survey of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine: Quality assurance

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Bishop

2012

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

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Membership survey of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine: Quality assurance

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Legal Medicine and Medical Law

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Analysis – What is legal medicine?

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2008

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Legal medicine addresses the interface between medicine and law in health care. The Australian College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) established itself as the peak body in legal and forensic medicine in Australia. It helped establish the Expert Witness Institute of Australia (EWIA), the legal medicine programme at Griffith University and contributes to government enquiries. Public health, disability assessment, competing priorities of privacy verses notification and determination of fitness for a host of pursuits are aspects of legal medicine. Complementing the EWIA, the ACLM runs training programmes emphasising legal medicine skills additional to clinical practice, advocating clinical relevance. Assessment of athletes' fitness and ensuring that prohibited substances are not inadvertently prescribed represent a growing area of legal medicine. Ethical consideration of health care should respect legal medicine principles rather than armchair commentary. International conventions must be respected by legal medicine and dictate physicians' obligations. The NSW courts imposed a duty to provide emergency medical care. Migration and communicable diseases are aspects of legal medicine. Police surgeons provide a face to legal medicine (which incorporates forensic medicine) underpinning its public perception of specialty recognition. Legal medicine deserves its place as a medical specialty in its own right.

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The teaching of legal medicine in Australasia

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

Membership survey of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine: Quality assurance

Membership survey of the Australasian College of Legal Medicine: Quality assurance

Legal Medicine and Medical Law

Analysis – What is legal medicine?

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