00701 - Forensic Medicine (LZ-A)

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: - evaluate the legal and ethical aspects related to healthcare, such as professional liability, confidentiality, consent, and mandatory medical treatments; - fulfill legal obligations: preparing certificates, filing mandatory reports, including medical reports and reporting to the Judicial Authority; - understand the crimes that may be prosecuted ex officio and upon complaint; - understand the medico-legal aspects related to abortion, voluntary termination of pregnancy, and conscientious objection under Law 194; - learn concepts related to forensic toxicology, forensic genetics, medico-legal traumatology, and thanatology; - acquire concepts related to social insurance: accidents at work, occupational diseases, and disability.

Course contents

Classification and evaluation of the main crimes against the person and ability to understand the causation. Duties of health pratictioners about information and confidentiality. Evaluaition of health professional liability. Classification of death, death causation and modalities of death. Evaluation of the worker's rights in social insurance field. Evaluation of evidences in forensic genetics, psycopathology and toxicology for criminal trial.

Readings/Bibliography

A textbook of upgraded legale medicine.

 Doctor's code of ethics

Teaching methods

lessons, discussion of casework of medical liability, crimes and sentence analysis. 

Assessment methods

The exam is integrated with Occupational Medicine and Pedagogy.

Assessment Method:

Written exam with multiple-choice quizzes
The assessment will focus on topics related to those indicated in the "Program and Contents" section.

Assessment Method: Written Integrated Course test with 65 multiple-choice quizzes (4 pre-assigned answers for each question, of which only one is correct). The score is 0.49 for a correct answer, 0 for an incorrect or missing answer.

Students will be asked 26 questions on Forensic Medicine, 26 questions on Occupational Medicine, and 13 questions on General and Social Pedagogy.

To obtain the maximum grade with honors, students must correctly answer a total number of questions greater than or equal to 63. Answering 61 or 62 questions correctly will earn a grade of 30/30. The grade will be considered sufficient (18/30) if the student answers at least 36 questions correctly and if the result is considered sufficient in each subject of the Integrated Course.

Intermediate grades will be proportional to the number of correct questions.

Time allowed for the exam: 60 minutes.

For students from previous academic years, the exam format used at that time will be maintained.

Teaching tools

slides, video

Office hours

See the website of Susi Pelotti