Ateneo - UPO

The course will provide students with elements of legal medicine (criminal law, civil law) useful for practicing the profession:
- main crimes against the person and their prosecution ex officio
- consent, medical record, professional and official secrecy
- professional liability
- biological damage and causal link
- Forensic Pathology and thanatology
- personal identification
- social and private insurance

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- Codice penale
- Codice civile
- Testi di legge citati a lezione
- Materiale didattico fornito dalla docente

• Elements of penal forensic medicine - Crimes against the person of interest. Report 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
• The mamagement of the victim of gender-based violence in the health sector
• Elements of professional responsibility
• Elements of traumatology and forensic pathology.
• Elements of thanatology.
• Ascertainment of death.
• Elements of forensic medicine in INAIL, INPS and ASL

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/servicesstudents-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

• Criminal forensic medicine elements - Offenses against the person of interest for health personnel - Report and Report to the Judicial Authority
• Right to privacy
• Elements of civil legal medicine
• Informed Consent and Mandatory Health Treatments. The restraint
• Knowledge of laws and regulations of practical application: Legislation on transplantation of organs from cadaver and living organs - Law 194/1978 - Law 40/2004 - Law 219/2017
• Taking charge of the victim of gender-based violence in health care
• Elements of professional responsibility
• Elements of traumatology and forensic pathology.
• Elements of thanatology.
• Assessment of death.
• Elements of INAIL and INPS forensic medicine
Migrants and medico-legal problems

In order to achieve the knowledge and skills corresponding to the minimum level of sufficiency, students are 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 main laws of interest for the health professional (Law 194/1978; Law 40/2004, legislation on organ transplants from living and dead bodies, legislation on the determination of death);
- 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.
- know the element of social security

(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