Trauma-informed examination and forensic documentation OSCE — the threat response and the court-admissible record

Station objectives

1. Recognise the freeze response during examination and respond in a trauma-informed way rather than proceeding. ^[1]
2. Run or support a single trained forensic interview and state the clinician's constrained role within it. ^[3]
3. Produce documentation that separates observed fact from clinical opinion and is contemporaneous, verbatim and complete. ^[2]
4. Obtain explicit and separate consent for photo-documentation and maintain the chain of custody. ^[2]
5. Discharge the safeguarding, reporting and follow-up duties with a safety plan in place. ^{[1] [4]}