D1 Knowledge and ability to understand: At the end of the course, the student should have acquired the basic notions of forensic medicine, deontology and health ethics.
D2 Ability to apply knowledge and skills: At the end of the course, the student should be able to interpret a text relating to the subjects studied.
D3 Autonomy of judgement. At the end of the course the student will be able to autonomously assess the legal terms of the doctor-patient relationship.
D4 Communication skills: At the end of the course, the student will have to demonstrate that he/she is able to present the knowledge acquired in point 1) with accuracy and property of language.
D5 Learning ability: At the end of the course, the student must be able to independently find and understand the regulatory and technological updates of the subject studied.

Knowledge of anatomy, physiology, pathology, radiology, pneumology, audiology, internal medicine.

1. Historical-operative framework and purpose of forensic medicine
2. Legal conditions for the practice of the medical profession
3. Elements of deontology
4. Information and consent to healthcare services
5. Professional secrecy
6. Elements of bioethics
7. Elements of criminal law
8. Physician information activity
9. Medical certificate and medical record
10. The responsibility of health professionals
11. Legal capacity and ability to act
12. Elements of forensic thanatology
13. Elements of necropsy medicine
14. The judicial inspection and the external cadaveric examination
15. Elements of forensic pathology
16. Criminology and forensic psychopathology
17. Elements of forensic toxicology
18. Social insurance
19. Private insurance

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L. Macchiarelli, P. Arbarello, G. Cave Bondi, T. Feola, Compendio di medicina legale, Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino 1998
C. Gerin, F. Antoniotti, S. Merli, Medicina legale e delle assicurazioni, Società Editrice Universo, Roma 1997

Historical aspects, aims, services, legal medicine as medicine of the rights.
The legal practice of medical profession and its justification. Medical association, deontologic code, relationship with patients, physicians and sanitary organizations. Citizen's rights and sanitary rights' charter. Treatment's refusal. Forced sanitary treatment. Medical research, bioethics in the fields of assisted procreation, defence of personality (transexualism), end of life (transplants and euthanasia). Crimes against persons, personal freedom and domestic assistance. Certificate, report, notification. Traumatology in legal medicine. Causal connection. Thanatology, death's diagnosis. Mortuary police rules. External examination of the corpse. Diagnosis, treatment's choice, prescription. Clinical records. Professional responsabilty. Domiciliary assistence. Problems with paternity, motherhood and filiation. Private insurance contracts (life insurance, accidents, civil responsabiliy), application to pshysicians.
Forensic psycho pathology: criminology, imputability, legal capacity, forced sanitary treatment and insanity.
Forensic toxicology: aims and methods, venom, acute and chronic intoxications. Drug abuse and addiction. Acute intoxications (ethyl alcohol, carbon monoxide) drug addiction (opium, cocaine, amphetamines and hallucinogens).
Social medicine: social protection, assistance and insurance, INPS, INAIL. Protection against accidents at work and professional risks. Silicosis and asbestosis. Civil inability.
The classroom teaching is complemented by seminars and exercise related to way of practice reporting of clinical care performance, characterized by medico-legal implications / effects (certification, prescription medications, report, etc.).

The teaching methods consist of frontal lessons with presentation via power point files. The lessons are structured to actively involve students in the topics covered. The teacher will encourage students to ask questions on the topics covered before, after but also during the lesson. For students interested in the topics of health documentation and health professional responsibility, it is possible to attend and carry out practical activities at the S.C. U.C.O. of Legal Medicine.

Power point presentations related to the teaching units can be found on the Microsoft Teams platform.

Learning will be verified through a written test consisting of 33 closed-answer questions (true/false) that will cover the entire program carried out.

The student will have thirty minutes to complete the test.
For each correct question 1 point will be assigned, for each unanswered question a score of 0 will be assigned, for each incorrect question a score of -1 will be assigned.
Students who score above 30 will be evaluated with a score of 30 cum laude.
If the student has scored less than 18, the test will be considered failed.

This teaching contributes to the realization of the UN goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (points 3, 5 and 16)