2015/2016

2020/2021

DM270

MED/43 (LEGAL MEDICINE)

DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS

MEDICINE AND SURGERY

PERCORSO COMUNE

6°

2nd semester (01/03/2021 - 15/06/2021)

4

32 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

FASSINA GIOVANNI - 1 ECTS
MORINI LUCA - 1 ECTS
PREVIDERE' CARLO - 1 ECTS
TRONCONI LIVIO PIETRO - 1 ECTS

Having passed all 5th year exams

The course aims to make the sixth year students (degree in Medicine and Surgery) aware of the basic topics of Forensic Medicine, in particular the essential knowledge to any non-specialist doctor in Forensic Medicine. The lessons will mainly focus on diagnosis and certification of death and post-death phenomena, elements of criminal and civil law and medical professional liability, and elements of criminal and civil procedure. Students will be educated on the principles of thanatology, which are essential for carrying out any specialty of the medical profession.
With regard to the forensic toxicological discipline, we want to describe in detail the concepts of poison and poisoning, pertinent to the most common cases of interest, especially in the interpretation of the results that must have administrative and medical-legal value.
As far as forensic genetics is concerned, the methodological approach used to deal with investigations for forensic identification purposes and investigations relating to ascertaining paternity or, more generally, kinship will be illustrated.

1) Introduction to Forensic Medicine: nature and definition of death, informational activity of the doctor regarding death.
2) postmortal phenomena and thanatochronology.
3) sexual violence
4) elements of criminal law
5) elements of civil law
6) elements of criminal procedure: expertise and technical advice.
7) elements of civil procedure: official technical advice.
8) medical professional liability in criminal and civil matters.
9) medical records and certificates.
10) FORENSIC PATHOLOGY:
- asphyxiation
- gunshot injury
- injury from white weapon
- injuries from blunt instruments
- injury from heat and electricity
11) FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY:
- introduction to the discipline and its application fields
- articles of the Criminal Code and other laws pertaining to the forensic toxicological issue
- chemical and legislative aspects of narcotic and psychotropic substances
- ethyl alcohol
- alcohol, drugs and driving
- carbon monoxide poisoning
- notions of acquisition of completely reliable chemical-toxicological data
12) FORENSIC GENETICS:
- judicial inspection in search of biological traces
- biological diagnosis
- the genetic profile and interpretation criteria
- molecular anthropology and disaster victim identification (DVI)
- paternity and kinship investigations
- behavioural genetics

The course is organized through lectures which may, if necessary, be supplemented by practical exercises.

Clemente Puccini, Istituzioni di Medicina Legale, Terza edizione.

Oral exam
(general questions chosen by the teacher, supplemented by more in-depth questions)

The medical legal discipline will be taught with the aim of practical applications in all fields of medicine, from certifications to professional responsibility, to traumatic injury and to the principles of thanatology, with perspectives and examples for each specialist branch and for the common acts of the medical profession.