00701 - Forensic Medicine (LZ-B)

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• evaluate the legal and deontological aspects related to healthcare activities such as professional liability, confidentiality, consent, and compulsory medical treatments;

• fulfill the duties required by law: drafting certificates, mandatory reporting including medical reports and reports to the Judicial Authority;

• know which crimes are prosecutable ex officio and which require a formal complaint that may be brought to a doctor's attention;

• understand the medico-legal aspects related to abortion, voluntary termination of pregnancy, and conscientious objection as provided for by Law 194;

• learn notions related to forensic toxicology, forensic genetics, medico-legal traumatology, and thanatology;

• acquire notions related to social insurance: workplace accidents, occupational diseases, and disability.

Course contents

The following topics will be covered:

• Introduction: Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences

• Elements of Law

• The Judicial System

• Material Causation (or Causal Link)

• Crimes Against Individual Safety

• Crimes Against Life

• Medico-Legal Pathology and Forensic Thanatology

• Determination of Death

• Legal Status of Healthcare Professionals

• Duties of Healthcare Professionals (Assistance – Medical Report – Formal Complaint)

• Medical Records

• Informed Consent

• Legal Capacity

• Capacity to Act

• Interdiction (or Legal Disqualification)

• Incapacitation

• Support Administration (or Court-Appointed Support)

• Social Insurance

• Compulsory Health Assessments and Treatments

• Regulations for the Social Protection of Maternity and on the Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy

• Professional Liability of Physicians and Healthcare Workers

• Forensic Radiology

Readings/Bibliography

M. Zagra, A. Argo, B. Madea, P. Procaccianti, Medicina Legale orientata per problemi, Elsevier, 2011.

C. Puccini, Istituzioni di medicina legale, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 6 edizione, 2003.

A. Cicognani, M. Fallani, S. Pelotti, Medicina Legale, Esculapio, 2020.

Teaching methods

• Lectures and case discussions.

Assessment methods

The exam will consist of a written test aimed at evaluating the achievement of the educational objectives

Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives

Teaching tools

PC, videoprojector

 

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Fais