Ateneo - UPO

Forensic aspects useful for the profession

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Padova 1996
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di un fenomeno globale, Piccin Nuova Libraria s.p.a, Padova 2019
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Storie di persone, voci di infermieri. McGrawHill, 2020
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GINO S., CAENAZZO L., La Medicina Legale nella protezione dei Diritti Umani, Piccin Nuova Libraria S.p.A., Padova, 2021.
- Codice penale
- Codice civile
- Testi di legge citati a lezione
- Materiale didattico fornito dalla docente

The course aims the following objectives:

- provide updated knowledge on the main areas of medical-legal interest for the profession
- to promote students' ability to use autonomous thinking

- to demonstrate a critical comprehension, on the part of the student, of the acquired knowledge

Various decided cases of Supreme Court will be discussed in the group.

None

Frontal lectures with slides and individual in-depth analysis on topics
proposed during the lessons

Students with physical disabilities, Learning Disabilities or Special Education Needs can request specific services and tools via the Staff Sviluppo e Coordinamento Carriere e Servizi alle Studentesse e agli Studenti, consulting the University webpage: https://www.uniupo.it/en/services/services-students-physical-or-learning-disabilities Students with disabilities, learning disabilities or special education needs, once they have contacted the University Staff, can refer to the tutor in charge of the course to define the examination modalities, concerning academic aspects.

Written examination ( multiple choice questions).
The exam is devoted to the assessment of the knowledge, and related understanding, of the program attained by the students.

Elements of criminal legal medicine - Report and Complaint to the Judicial Authority
• Professional secrecy - Privacy
• Informed consent and mandatory health treatments.
• Gender mainstreaming: The assignment of the victim of gender-based violence in the health sector
• Elements of professional responsibility -
• Elements of traumatology and forensic pathology.
• Migrants and medico-legal matters

In order to achieve the knowledge and skills corresponding to the minimum level of sufficiency, the student is asked to demonstrate:
(KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS):
- know and be able to apply the fundamental principles of forensic medicine, with particular attention to what is fundamental in the healthcare professional / patient relationship (informed consent, patient self-determination, TSO, professional and official secrecy);
- know the crimes of interest to the health professional in order to be able to draw up the report (report or report) for the Judicial Authority;
- know and be able to describe injuries of interest in the forensic field
- know and be able to deal with issues of interest to the profession relating to unaccompanied - foreign minors
- know and be able to apply the principles of professional responsibility

(TRANSVERSAL SKILLS)
- be able to compile a complaint or report for the judicial authority
- know the rights and duties of the health profession