00701 - Forensic Medicine

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Professional education (cod. 8477)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student:

  • Knows the appropriate ways to interact with the judicial authority when required by law.
  • Understands the importance of consent to medical treatment.
  • Knows the criminal proceedings, the principles of law 194, and the right to informed consent, knowing its terms.
  • Knows the basic elements to understand professional responsibility.
  • Is capable of defining the issues related to the beginning and end of life.

Course contents

Books of legal medicine

Teaching methods

Frontal lessions

Assessment methods

Oral exam

Office hours

See the website of Guido Pelletti