Course Details

OCCUPATIONAL AND LEGAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

MS0905

Course
OCCUPATIONAL AND LEGAL MEDICAL SCIENCES
Code
MS0905
Academic Year
2023/2024
Curriculum Year
2019/2020
Degree Programme
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
Credits
6
Lecture Hours
50
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
MED/43 - Legal Medicine, MED/44 - Occupational Medicine
Course Type
Integrated learning activity
Course Delivery
OBB - Obbligatoria
Year
5
Teaching period
Secondo Semestre
Campus
NOVARA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
The course will provide students with elements of legal medicine and of personal identification techniques useful for practicing the profession
Reference Texts
Material provided by the professorTesti generali di riferimento:
- Medicina Legale e delle Assicurazioni , Norelli, Buccelli, Fineschi 2Ed Piccin
- Le indagini medico-legali sulla scena del crimine, Bolino, ed Edra
- Medicina Legale orientata per problemi Ed. Edra 2^ ed.Storie di persone, voci di infermieri. McGrawHill, 2020
- Narrare la violenza. Cultura, cura e clinica” a cura di Fantauzzi A., Giovanni Fioriti Editore s.r.l, Roma, 2020.
- GINO S., CAENAZZO L., La violenza sulle donne. Definizioni e caratteristiche di un fenomeno globale, Piccin Nuova Libraria S.p.A., Padova, 2019
Learning Outcomes
-At the end of the lessons the students will have acquired useful elements for the recognition of the most frequently encountered medico-legal problems in healthcare, both in the ASL and in reference to medico-legal pathology and insurance medicine.
- useful elements for personal identification, for the management of victims of gender violence and for acquiring consent to health treatments
Prerequisites
None
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures with slides and individual in-depth analysis on topics
proposed during the lessons
Assessment Methods
Written and /or oral exam exam aimed at evaluating the knowledge learned by the student. The exam will focus on the entire program carried out in class. The exam is passed when the student demonstrates sufficient preparation for both forensic medicine and occupational medicine
Detailed Syllabus
FORENSIC MEDICINE: Definitions, general information and scope of application
FORENSIC MEDICINE IN THE CONTEXT OF GENERAL MEDICINE
Mandatory reports
Medical certificate and medical record
Report and reporting of crime
Expertise in criminal matters and technical consultancy in civil matters
ETHICAL-LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATIONSHIP
Consent to healthcare provision and the duty of professional secrecy
GENERAL NOTIONS OF CIVIL LAW
Legal capacity Ability to act
Interdiction, disqualification and support administration
COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE TO A PERSON FROM AN ILLEGAL ACTION (general notions, forms and coefficients of damage, compensation criteria)
GENERAL CONCEPTS OF CRIMINAL LAW
Imputability
Crimes against the person (homicide, infanticide-feticide, beatings, personal injuries)
Other crimes of medical interest (crimes against the family, against the pity of the deceased, against public safety),
PROFILES OF FAULT AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE DOCTOR
NOTIONS OF FORENSIC PATHOLOGY
Causation link and etiological reference criteria
Injurious causes and their subdivision
Pretest of injuriousness
Injuriousness: from bladed weapons, from blunt objects, from firearms and explosions, from accidents traffic, from electrical/thermal/baric energy, asphyxiated, other harmful effects
Forensic toxicology: Diagnosis of poisoning in the living person and in the corpse, Intoxication from alcohol, narcotic substances and carbon monoxide
TANATOLOGY AND JUDICIAL INSPECTION
IDENTIFICATION
• Identification of the living person and the corpse :
• Identification of organic traces
BIOETHICS AND MEDICAL DEONTOLOGY
Principles of Ethics and Medical
Ethics Code of Medical Ethics: rules and sanctions
SAFETY AND SOCIAL SECURITY
• Mandatory Insurance (protection against accidents at work and professional diseases; disability, old age, survivors)
• Social protection of the civil invalid
• The privileged pension

Dr. GINO:
- Consent and compulsory health treatments
- Law 194/1978
- Medically assisted procreation
- Organ transplants
- Gender violence
- Personal identification
- Unaccompanied foreign minors
Expected Learning Outcomes
The student must have acquired useful elements for: - knowledge of the most common medico-legal problems in the healthcare sector, elements of professional responsibility, elements of necropsy medicine and medico-legal pathology - knowledge of elements of insurance medicine. - personal identification - management of victims of gender violence; - the acquisition of valid consent to health treatments

Moduli

Course year 5
Code MS0907
Course LEGAL MEDICINE II
Lecturers Sarah GINO
SSD MED/43
Campus NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 1
Course year 5
Code MS0908
Course OCCUPATIONAL MEDICINE
Lecturers Maurizio Coggiola
SSD MED/44
Campus NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 2
Course year 5
Code MS0906
Course LEGAL MEDICINE I
Lecturers Gianfranco ZULIAN
SSD MED/43
Campus NOVARA
Curriculum CORSO GENERICO
Credits 3
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