---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 411.34"
title: "45"
number: "411.34"
heading: "Specialized training: Medical and mental health care staff."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/411.34"
---

# §411.34. Specialized training: Medical and mental health care staff.

- (a) All medical and mental health care staff employed or contracted by care provider facilities must be specially trained, at a minimum, on the following:
  - (1) How to detect and assess signs of sexual abuse and sexual harassment;
  - (2) How to respond effectively and professionally to victims of sexual abuse and sexual harassment;
  - (3) How and to whom to report allegations or suspicions of sexual abuse and sexual harassment; and
  - (4) **How to preserve physical evidence of sexual abuse.** If medical staff conduct forensic examinations, such medical staff must receive training to conduct such examinations.
- (b) Care provider facilities must document that medical and mental health practitioners employed or contracted by the care provider facility received the training referenced in this section.
- (c) Medical and mental health practitioners employed or contracted by the care provider facility also must receive the training mandated for employees under [§ 411.31](/cfr/45/411.31.md) or for contractors and volunteers under [§ 411.32](/cfr/45/411.32.md), depending on the practitioner's status at the care provider facility.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 15607 (d).

### Source

Source: 79 FR 77789, Dec. 24, 2014, unless otherwise noted.