B4067 - RIFLESSI MEDICO-LEGALI

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Susi Pelotti
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/43
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 5904)

Learning outcomes

Ability to manage the pateinet.doctor relationship when problems arise regarding decision of treatment, of end of life, of life at the beginning

Course contents

The Forensic Medicine module will translate ethical and legal reflections on the following topics into the medical field:

doctor-patient relationship, how to manage it for an informed choice based on shared decision-making and how to manage the patient's refusal both to be informed and to treatment

abortion: the doctor's duties and conscientious objection

assisted suicide, deep palliative sedation, advance care planning from a medical point of view with in-depth analysis of palliative care.

Doctor's code of ethics

Readings/Bibliography

NICE Shared decision making guidelines

Manuale di Medicina legale Esculapio Editore

Teaching methods

Lesson and discussione of cases 

work groups

Assessment methods

Discussion of a case

Office hours

See the website of Susi Pelotti