Explain a civil forensic disability opinion to counsel — CASC communication station

Station brief

Format. Communication station, approximately 7–10 minutes active time after reading. You are the psychiatry registrar providing a preliminary discussion of a civil psychiatric IME with instructing counsel (examiner role-player).^[1][3]

Candidate instructions. Explain your forensic role and who retained you. Summarise how you assess psychiatric disability. Separate diagnosis, impairment, disability, and fitness for a specific job. Explain need for records and validity consideration. Resist pressure to rubber-stamp “total permanent disability.” Do not invent statute section numbers. Check understanding.^[1][2][5]