Ateneo - UPO

The course will provide students with elements of legal medicine (criminal law, civil law) useful for practicing the profession

Tagliaro, Bortolotti, Dimonte, Saiani, Raniero, Gibelli, Cittadini: Medicina legale e bioetica (Per i corsi di laurea delle professioni sanitarie) - Piccin editore 2021 - Cicognani, Fallani, Pelotti: Medicina Legale Società editrice Esculapio 2025 - Silingardi, De Leo, Itnrona et al: Medicina legale (per Studenti e Medici di Medicina Generale) Idelson -Gnocchi 2023 - Arnone, Carcarinino, Stornelli, Vicario: Le professioni sanitarie, Società editrice Universo 2024 - GINO S., CAENAZZO L., La Medicina Legale nella protezione dei Diritti Umani, Piccin Nuova Libraria S.p.A., Padova, 2021. - “Narrare la violenza. Cultura, cura e clinica” (a cura di Annamaria Fantauzzi), Giovanni Fioriti Editore s.r.l, Roma, 2020 - Codice civile/codice penale - Laws and material discussed during the lessons

At the end of the course the student will be able to:
• deal with the medical-legal problems,
• know laws and regulations of practical application;
• know the fundamentals of professional responsibility;
• recognize and be able to describe injuries of medical-legal interest,
• recognize negative and positive cadaveric phenomena.

No one

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.

The learning assessment will focus on the entire program carried out in
class and on any individual in-depth analysis assigned.
Written test with multiple choice questions on the topics covered in the
course

• Elements of penal forensic medicine - Crimes against the person of
interest.
Report and Complaint to the Judicial Authority
• Elements of civil legal medicine
• Elements of professional responsibility
• Elements of traumatology and forensic pathology.
• Elements of thanatology.
• Elements of forensic medicine in INAIL and INPS

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 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 for the Judicial Authority;
- know and be able to apply the methods for describing the lesions;
- know and be able to apply the principles of professional responsibility;
- know the medico-legal problems relating to Unaccompanied Foreign Minors;
- know and be able 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