Ateneo - UPO

Forensic aspects useful for the profession

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- 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.

Knowledge of the basic principles of legal medicine

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 quizzes).
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 - Referral and Complaint to the Judicial Authority • Professional secrecy - Privacy • Elements of civil legal medicine • Informed consent and mandatory health treatments. The restraint • Knowledge of laws and regulations of practical application: Legislation on cadaveric and living organ transplants - Law 194/1978 - Law 40/2004 - Law 219/2017 • Elements of professional responsibility - The nursing record - Adverse drug injuries • Elements of traumatology and forensic pathology. • Elements of thanatology. • Ascertainment of death. • Social insurance • Migrants and medico-legal matters • Taking charge of victims of gender-based violence in healthcare settings. This topic represents a moment aimed at integrating the gender dimension.

In order to achieve the knowledge and skills corresponding to the minimum level of sufficiency, the student is asked to demonstrate that:
(KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS):
- know and know how 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 apply the methods for describing the lesions;
- know and know how to apply the main laws of interest for the health professional (Law 194/1978; Law 40/2004, legislation on organ transplants from living and cadaveric, legislation on the determination of death);
- know and know how to apply the principles of professional responsibility;
- know the medico-legal problems relating to Unaccompanied Foreign Minors;
- know and know how to apply the fundamental elements for the management of victims of gender-based violence.

(TRANSVERSAL SKILLS)
- be able to describe, in written and oral form, the injuries;
- be able to compile a complaint or report for the judicial authority
- know how to manage victims of gender-based violence and unaccompanied foreign minors from a health point of view;
- know the rights and duties of the health profession