Continuing Education Programme - Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine and Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University

Given the increasing requirement of the courts for forensic experts to engage in ongoing education, a continuing education programme was developed in forensic medicine at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine to cater for both clinicians and pathologists. The programme consists of a series of cases which are circulated several times per year. All are actual cases and are reflective of the types of presentations experienced in forensic medicine. Each case includes relevant and appropriate details/findings and may include photographs. A series of questions follow which are answered usually in short-answer format. The answers are returned and correlated by a review panel, and a commentary with the response outcome is distributed to all those involved. The cases presented here are selected from this programme.