2016/2017

2021/2022

DM270

MED/43 (LEGAL MEDICINE)

DEPARTMENT OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE

MEDICINE AND SURGERY (IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE) (ENGLISH LANGUAGE)

PERCORSO COMUNE

6°

1st semester (04/10/2021 - 14/01/2022)

2

16 lesson hours

English

ORAL TEST

MORINI LUCA - 2 ECTS

having passed pathological anatomy exam

The course will provide the essential knowledge to any non-specialist doctor in Forensic Medicine, mainly focus on diagnosis and certification of death and post-death phenomena. Students will be educated on the principles of thanatology, which are essential for carrying out any specialty of the medical profession, and on how to approach any kind of lesion and victims of sexual abuse.
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) FORENSIC PATHOLOGY:
- asphyxiation
- gunshot injury
- injury from white weapon
- injuries from blunt instruments
- injury from heat and electricity
5) 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
6) FORENSIC GENETICS:
- judicial inspection in search of biological traces
- biological diagnosis
- the genetic profile and interpretation criteria
- molecular anthropology and disaster victim identification (DVI)

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

Knight’s Forensic Pathology, Third Edition.

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 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.