Emergency department (ED) providers serve as the primary point-of-contact for many survivors of sexual assault, but are often untrained on their unique treatment needs. Sexual assault nurse examiners (SANE) are therefore an important resource for training other ED providers. The objective of this project was to create a SANE-led educational intervention addressing this training gap. We achieved this objective by 1) conducting a needs-assessment of ED providers' selfreported knowledge of and comfort with sexual assault patient care at an urban academic adult ED, and 2) using these results to create and implement a SANE-led educational intervention to improve emergency medicine (EM) residents' ability to provide sexual assault patient care. From the needs-assessment survey, ED providers reported confidence in medical management but not in providing trauma-informed care, conducting forensic exams, or understanding hospital policies or state laws. Less than half of respondents felt confident in their ability to avoid re-traumatizing sexual assault patients and only 29% felt comfortable conducting a forensic exam. Based on these results, a SANE-led educational intervention was developed for EM residents, consisting of a didactic lecture, two standardized patient cases, and a forensic pelvic exam simulation. Pre-and post-intervention surveys demonstrated an increase in respondents' ability to avoid retraumatizing patients, comfort with conducting forensic exams, and understanding of laws and

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