- Docente: Mauro Gherardi
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/43
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 8478)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module the student will get essential knowledge about the characteristics of the main models of health care system in Europe and the United States and will have acquired the required skills to manage professional liability problems in ethical and legal terms.
Course contents
- Legal figures and professional profiles
- Professional confidentiality and privacy
- Information and consent
- Management of health records
- Causality
- Placement of the professional responsibility within healthcare professions
- Introduction to risk management
- Social security of disability
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