Student Group Details

Forensic Medicine - ALBA

MC094

Course
Forensic Medicine - ALBA
Code
MC094
Academic Year
2026/2027
Curriculum Year
2024/2025
Degree Programme
NURSING
Curriculum
000 - CORSO GENERICO
Course coordinator
Lecturers
Credits
2
Lecture Hours
24
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
MED/43 - Legal Medicine
Course Type
Single-subject learning activity
Course Delivery
OBB - Obbligatoria
Year
3
Teaching period
Secondo Semestre
Campus
ALBA
Teaching language
Italian
Course Contents
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
Reference Texts
Recommended Bibliography
  • Puccini C., Istituzioni di medicina legale [Institutions of Forensic Medicine], Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2003.
  • Cazzaniga A., Cattabeni C.M., Luvoni R., Compendio di medicina legale e delle assicurazioni [Compendium of Forensic and Insurance Medicine], Utet Giuridica, 2022.
  • Canuto A., Tovo S., Medicina Legale e delle Assicurazioni [Forensic and Insurance Medicine], Piccin Editrice, Padova, 1996.
  • Papi L., Elementi di Medicina Legale per Infermieristica [Elements of Forensic Medicine for Nursing], Edizioni Plus Pisa University Press, 2009.
  • Zagra M., Argo A., Madea B., Procaccianti P., Medicina Legale orientata per problemi [Problem-Oriented Forensic Medicine], Elsevier srl, Milan, 2011.
  • Rodriguez D., Aprile A., Medicina Legale per infermieri [Forensic Medicine for Nurses], Carocci ed., 2010.
  • Gino S., Caenazzo L., La violenza sulle donne. Definizioni e caratteristiche di un fenomeno globale [Violence Against Women: Definitions and Characteristics of a Global Phenomenon], Piccin Nuova Libraria s.p.a, Padova, 2019.
  • Benci L., Aspetti giuridici della professione infermieristica [Legal Aspects of the Nursing Profession], McGraw-Hill ed., 2011.
  • Narrare la violenza. Cultura, cura e clinica [Narrating Violence: Culture, Care, and Clinical Practice], edited by Fantauzzi A., Giovanni Fioriti Editore s.r.l, Rome, 2020.
  • Gino S., Caenazzo L., La Medicina Legale nella protezione dei Diritti Umani [Forensic Medicine in the Protection of Human Rights], Piccin Nuova Libraria S.p.A., Padova, 2021.
Statutes, Regulations and Teaching Materials
  • Italian Civil Code (Codice civile)
  • Legal texts and statutes cited during lectures
  • Teaching materials provided by the lecturer


Learning Outcomes

• 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

Prerequisites
none
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures with slides and individual in-depth analysis on topics proposed during the lessons
Additional Information
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.
Assessment Methods

The learning test will be conducted in an integrated manner with the other disciplines pertaining to the integrated course of "Organization and Management of Care Processes." The test consists of 64 closed multiple-choice questions of which only one is correct and 2 open-ended questions

The Ethics and Bioethics part includes 12 closed questions in which knowledge will be assessed and 2 open questions in the form of a case, in which students will have to identify The ethically questionable behaviors enacted and apply The contents of the Code of Ethics.

The exam is considered passed if students correctly answers at least 60% of the closed questions for each discipline and expresses The required contents in the open questions. In this regard docents have formulated a specific correction grid.

If students achieves a total of 95% correct answers, he/she will be graded with 30/30, keeping the minimum threshold of 60% unchanged. If students does not exceed this threshold he/she repeats the exam in its entirety, taking the test again including questions from all disciplines. Students have 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete the test.

Detailed Syllabus
• 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
Expected Learning Outcomes
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
Last update:15-09-2026 00:13:32