Legal Medicine
A.Y. 2023/2024
Learning objectives
The course aims at providing students with general knowledge about:
i) the main forensic aspects of medical issues;
ii) the principles of forensic pathology and clinical forensic medicine;
iii) the Italian legislation as well as bioethics and the ethical code;
iv) the post-mortem alterations, certification, the estimation of time since death, identification, scene of crime, medical malpractice and social and private insurance.
i) the main forensic aspects of medical issues;
ii) the principles of forensic pathology and clinical forensic medicine;
iii) the Italian legislation as well as bioethics and the ethical code;
iv) the post-mortem alterations, certification, the estimation of time since death, identification, scene of crime, medical malpractice and social and private insurance.
Expected learning outcomes
The students know:
i) the tools for differential diagnosis of violence and of crimes against the person, to appropriately describe and interpret trauma;
ii) how to use the underlying principles of consent, medical liability, medical ethics and reporting.
i) the tools for differential diagnosis of violence and of crimes against the person, to appropriately describe and interpret trauma;
ii) how to use the underlying principles of consent, medical liability, medical ethics and reporting.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Course syllabus
· Basics of criminal and civil law
· Reporting to law enforcement
· Crimes against the person: homicide, personal lesions, sexual violence, infanticide, abuse of means of correction, maltreatment in the family
· Clinical forensic medicine: protocols and clinical aspects to adopt in the case of crimes against the person
· Forensic pathology: trauma: blunt force, sharp force, gunshot wounds, tocicology, burns, electric trauma etc.
· Birth, death and the evaluation of postmortem interval with elements of entomology and botany
· Medical records, certificates and other documents of medico legal interest
· Causal nexus and evidence based medicine
· Identification and scene of crime
· The autopsy
· Medical malpractice
· Abortion
· Ethics
· Transplants
· Private and social insurance; biological damage
· Humanitarian forensic medicine: torture, Istanbul protocol, unaccompanied minors, legge Zampa
· Reporting to law enforcement
· Crimes against the person: homicide, personal lesions, sexual violence, infanticide, abuse of means of correction, maltreatment in the family
· Clinical forensic medicine: protocols and clinical aspects to adopt in the case of crimes against the person
· Forensic pathology: trauma: blunt force, sharp force, gunshot wounds, tocicology, burns, electric trauma etc.
· Birth, death and the evaluation of postmortem interval with elements of entomology and botany
· Medical records, certificates and other documents of medico legal interest
· Causal nexus and evidence based medicine
· Identification and scene of crime
· The autopsy
· Medical malpractice
· Abortion
· Ethics
· Transplants
· Private and social insurance; biological damage
· Humanitarian forensic medicine: torture, Istanbul protocol, unaccompanied minors, legge Zampa
Prerequisites for admission
Basic knowledge acquired in the teachings of Diagnostic Imagining and Radiotherapy, Anatomy, Histology and Embriology, Dermatologic Clinics, Clinical Orthopedics and Traumatology, Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgery: Clinics and Therapy.
Teaching methods
Each credit includes hours of frontal and innovative teaching. The innovative teaching activities consist in the deepening of specific topics of the course syllabus, that will be selected by the students and the teacher. Such activity will be carried out in active collaboration between students and teacher.The course will consist of standard lectures, seminars, case studies and a practical in the autopsy room.
Teaching Resources
Cazzaniga et al. 2018 UTET Compendio di Medicina Legale
Gentilomo, Travaini, d'Auria 2009 Medico e Giustizia, Raffaello Cortina Editore
Pekka Saukko and Bernard Knight
Knight's Forensic Pathology, 4th Ed.
CRC Press, 2015
PPts and readings will be available on the Ariel site.
Gentilomo, Travaini, d'Auria 2009 Medico e Giustizia, Raffaello Cortina Editore
Pekka Saukko and Bernard Knight
Knight's Forensic Pathology, 4th Ed.
CRC Press, 2015
PPts and readings will be available on the Ariel site.
Assessment methods and Criteria
The examination is oral and includes a practical examination; there is a preappello at the end of the course usually in December with the same modality as the regular exam; no auxiliary material for the final examination is permitted; the results of the exam will be communicated at the end of the exam.
MED/43 - FORENSIC MEDICINE - University credits: 5
Informal teaching: 16 hours
Lessons: 32 hours
: 16 hours
Lessons: 32 hours
: 16 hours
Professor:
Cattaneo Cristina
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