84652 - Legal Medicine

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Docente: Mauro Gherardi
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/43
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 9080)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student possesses the necessary skills for the analysis of professional responsibility problems from an ethical and legal point of view.

Course contents

  • Legal figures and professional profiles
  • Professional confidentiality and privacy
  • Information and consent
  • Management of health records
  • The professional responsibility in the healthcare professions

Readings/Bibliography

  • Teaching material used in class
  • Baima Bollone P., Medicina Legale, G. Giappichelli Editore, Torino, 2014
  • Feola T., Arcangeli M., Nardecchia E. Appunti di Medicina Legale, Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino, 2014
  • Norelli G., Buccelli C, Fineschi V., Medicina Legale e delle Assicurazioni II Ed. Piccin Editore, Padova, 2014
  • Zagra M., Argo A., Burkhard M., Procaccianti P., Medicina legale orientata per problemi, Elsevier editore, Milano, 2011
  • Macchiarelli L, Medicina Legale, Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino, 2005
  • Puccini C., Istituzioni di medicina legale, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano, 2003.

Teaching methods

The course is held through frontal lectures with discussion of clinical-legal cases

Assessment methods

Questionnaire with multiple options (15 questions, including 3 essay questions; 2 points for each correct answer; 60 minutes total time) or oral exam.

Teaching tools

Students will be provided witch the teaching material used in class in electronic form

Office hours

See the website of Mauro Gherardi