00701 - Forensic Medicine

Learning outcomes

At the conclusion of the course, the student demonstrates an appropriate understanding of the correct procedures to be followed in relation to judicial authorities when required by law, is able to understand the significance of informed consent in medical treatment, and possesses knowledge of offenses prosecutable according to the law, the principles of Law 194/1978. Furthermore, the student understands the fundamental elements necessary to delineate professional liability and is able to articulate the issues related to the beginning and end of life.

Course contents

The Following Topics Will Be Covered

• Introduction: Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences

• Judicial System

• Factual Causality

• Crimes Against Individual Safety

• Crimes Against Life

• Overview of Forensic Medical Pathology and Thanatology

• Legal Roles of Healthcare Professionals

• Duties of Healthcare Professionals (First Aid – Medical Report – Notification)

• Medical Records

• Informed Consent

• Legal Capacity

• Capacity to Act

• Interdiction

• Incapacity

• Support Administration

• Social Insurance

• Compulsory Medical Examinations and Treatments

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

• Professional Liability of Physicians and Healthcare Workers

• Forensic Toxicology

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, 2014.

Teaching methods

Frontal teaching and case studies.

Assessment methods

Multiple-choice quiz and open-ended question

Teaching tools

Slides

Office hours

See the website of Guido Pelletti

See the website of Jennifer Paola Pascali