Member Application Form

For information on membership types and application criteria, please review the Membership Types page.

In accordance with Standing Order 2.4.6, applications for Foundation Membership for Forensic Physicians, Sexual Offence Examiners, and Medico-legal Advisers, closed on Tuesday, 13 October 2009. Membership is only open to those who have completed the MFFLM Examination or those eligible under the Equivalent Qualification Clause.

Standing Order 2.3.1 and 2.4.1 allows the Board to elect Members by Examination. For more details on the MFFLM examination please visit this page.

Once your application is submitted you should receive an email, if you do not receive that email please contact us at forensic.medicine@fflm.ac.uk at your earliest convenience.

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Good Standing

If elected, applicants are expected to comply with the Standing Orders and are therefore required to digitally sign a Form of Faith confirming that they are in good standing.

Good standing is a concept which is not clearly defined. It is not by itself affected by a complaint being made to the regulatory body about an individual.

For the avoidance of doubt, good standing includes payment of subscriptions in compliance with FFLM regulations. However, should there be a finding of impairment of fitness to practise in this context, having been through due process, then this should be reported without delay to the Registrar, in confidence.

Depending on the sanction this outcome attracts, there may be implications for continued membership of the FFLM. Where a registered medical practitioner is subject to an interim order by the GMC or equivalent body then the Registrar must likewise be informed but no action would usually be taken in this situation.

Should the member or applicant for Affiliate membership, Membership or Fellowship receive or accept a warning from their regulatory body this must also be reported to the Registrar.

If the member is in any doubt as to their position they should contact the Registrar to clarify their obligations.

Please ensure you read the information below, prior to completing this form.

 

This form is designed to allow those seeking to join the Faculty as Affiliates, Nurse Affiliates, Paramedic Affiliates, or Associates to provide sufficient information to allow the Membership and Fellowship Committee (MFC) to make an appropriate decision.

Information submitted via this form will be used to carry out any reasonable activity related to the administration of the FFLM Membership process and is held subject to relevant data protection legislation.

Failure to complete all sections may result in rejection of the application as the Faculty considers this information is essential to enable the MFC to determine whether to recommend to the Board that an individual should be invited to join the Faculty.

The MFC will assess the application based on the information within this form. Because of the innate variability of the structure and information contained within Curriculum Vitae (CV) the MFC will not consider them. Please DO NOT insert or attach CVs to this form.

Please consult the relevant Guidance document for full details but very briefly:

Affiliate (including Nurse & Paramedic Affiliates)
These are clinicians actively engaged with and working within the field of forensic and legal medicine (this may be full or part time). This would typically include clinicians working in police custody, sexual offence medicine, medico/dento legal advisors, and medically qualified coroners.

It would also include medical examiners and reviewers as well as court appointed, medically qualified members of a tribunal. For clarity this does not include clinicians who work as disability assessors, write medical reports for legal processes, or are asked to provide evidence or opinion as expert witnesses to a tribunal.

Associate
This is our broadest category of membership and is open to those with an interest in the educational aspects of Forensic and Legal Medicine, but are not eligible for Affiliate membership. Associate members typically include legal professionals, expert witnesses, or those simply with an interest in the work we do.

All applications are reviewed and assessed by the MFC who may take advice at their discretion. It is a thorough but confidential process based on submitted information only and which does not involve the candidates directly.

Following a decision by the MFC, representative of the MFC will write / email the applicant to inform them of the outcome. This outcome may include recommending that an applicant is more suited to an
alternative membership group than that applied for.
If the outcome is unfavourable the applicant may apply again. Please note unsuccessful applicants are not automatically reviewed by the Faculty and so the onus is strictly on an applicant to submit a new application form if they wish to be re-considered by the MFC.

Applications will be considered at the next appropriate meeting of the MFC. The closing dates for completed applications and the dates of the MFC meetings are available on the website.