ID:
501933
Duration (hours):
16
CFU:
2
SSD:
MEDICINA LEGALE
Year:
2025
Overview
Date/time interval
Primo Semestre (01/10/2025 - 16/01/2026)
Syllabus
Course Objectives
The course aims to provide sixth-year students with a solid understanding of the basic concepts of Legal Medicine, particularly the essential knowledge required by any physician who is not a specialist in Legal Medicine. The first part of the course will focus on the duties of the physician and professional responsibility, as well as the diagnosis and certification of death, while the second part will address forensic pathology. Students will learn the principles of thanatology necessary for the practice of any medical specialty, with particular emphasis on recognizing and describing all types of injuries and on approaching victims of violence. One of the lessons will be dedicated to forensic toxicology: the notions of poison and poisoning will be described, relevant to the most common cases of interest, especially for interpreting results that must have administrative and medico-legal significance.
Course Prerequisites
having knowledge of human anatomy and pathological anatomy. In particular the student must have acquired knowledge of the physiological and pathological processes related to diagnosis, therapy, and prognosis of human diseases.
Teaching Methods
The course is organized through lectures which may, if necessary, be supplemented by practical exercises.
Assessment Methods
Oral exam (general questions chosen by the teacher, supplemented by more in-depth questions). In particular the evaluation is divided into two part. During the first one a general question on an argument related to forensic pathology is submitted to the student; the following questions might be narrower and deal with specific part of the course. A complete and exhaustive answer to the general question guarantees a final grade of 25/30. Adequate answers to the more specific questions can increase the final grade to 30 cum laude.
Texts
B. Madea "Forensic Medicine"
R.B. Dettmeier "Forensic Medicine"
Codice di deontologia medica
R.B. Dettmeier "Forensic Medicine"
Codice di deontologia medica
Contents
1) Introduction to Forensic Medicine, material causality link.
2) CRIMINAL LAW: the structure of the crime, punishability. imputability. Crimes against the person: homicide (various types of homicide), battery, personal injury, mistreatment within the family, stalking, sexual violence.
3) DUTIES OF THE DOCTOR: informed consent, medical records, relations with the judicial authority. Voluntary termination of pregnancy.
4) MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
5) FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY:Living persons and cadavers
6) DEATH: definition, assessment. thanatochronology
7) FORENSIC TRAUMATOLOGY 1: Method of ascerteinment, blunt force wounds,
gunshot wounds
8) FORENSIC TRAUMATOLOGY 2: sharp force wounds, asphyxia
2) CRIMINAL LAW: the structure of the crime, punishability. imputability. Crimes against the person: homicide (various types of homicide), battery, personal injury, mistreatment within the family, stalking, sexual violence.
3) DUTIES OF THE DOCTOR: informed consent, medical records, relations with the judicial authority. Voluntary termination of pregnancy.
4) MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
5) FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY:Living persons and cadavers
6) DEATH: definition, assessment. thanatochronology
7) FORENSIC TRAUMATOLOGY 1: Method of ascerteinment, blunt force wounds,
gunshot wounds
8) FORENSIC TRAUMATOLOGY 2: sharp force wounds, asphyxia
Course Language
English
More information
The medical legal discipline will be taught with the aim of practical applications in all fields of medicine, from certifications to traumatic injury and to the principles of thanatology, with perspectives and examples for each specialist branch and for the common acts of the medical profession.
Degrees
Degrees
MEDICINE AND SURGERY (IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
Single-cycle Master’s Degree (6 Years)
6 years
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