Host: Manchester Medical School
About the event:
Following on from our successful ‘A conversation with series’, the Care and Compassion Leads, Professor Paul O’Neil and Dr Robina Shah are delighted to invite you to:
“A Conversation with Dr Catherine White OBE, Clinical Director, St Mary’s Centre
MB ChB, FFFLM, FRCOG, MRCGP, DCH, DMJ, DFFP
The Role of the Doctor:
At medical school you are taught about conditions that effect health, how to spot signs and symptoms and how to treat patients. The super advanced medical student might even think about prevention….
So you learn about coronary heart disease and how it will affect 1 in 3 women.
You spend ages on diabetes because 5% of adults in the UK have it, lung cancer because over 5.5% of adults will get it.
Meanwhile sex seems to be everywhere but what about our knowledge of sexual violence? Despite it being a widely prevalent problem, affecting many patients with often profound effects on the physical and psychological health of the victim, both in the short and long term, it tends to remain a hidden issue. But the statistics demand otherwise:
- 23% of women and 3% of men experience sexual assault as an adult
- Around 21% of girls and 11% of boys experience some form of childhood sexual abuse
- Just fewer than 50% of women mental health service users have been subject to sexual abuse and around 50% to physical abuse in childhood, notwithstanding adult abuse which they may also be surviving
The aim of this conversation is to raise awareness of the problem, how it may present and provide pointers as to what the good doctor might do about it.
Our Speaker:
Dr Catherine White has worked in forensic medicine since 1995 specialising in the examination of women, men and children following an allegation of rape or sexual assault and takes a local, national and international lead in SARC regulation and development. She has been the Clinical Director at St Mary’s SARC since 2003
