Medical Legal Clinical Practice

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge about bodily injuries and the objectives of the different areas of Law, namely, Criminal Law, Civil Law and Labour Law.

Teaching Methods

Lessons with powerpoint presentations and handouts used with theoretical content on the methodology, relevance and implication of the evaluation of body damage in different areas of Law.

In practical classes will be presented and discussed case studies of evaluation of post-traumatic bodily harm allowing students to apply the acquired concepts. Later following exposure of the final conclusions will be promoted a final discussion of the case.

Learning Outcomes

The student must understand the theoretical and practical relevance of evaluation and compensation of post-traumatic bodily harm in the different fields of Law, particularly in Criminal Law, in Labor Law and Civil Law.This module of Master will respect the general objectives of medical education and will focus, above all in understanding the methodology used to carry out a rigorous medical exam for the global and personalized assessment of the personal damage.

The student must develop the competence to draft and correctly interpret an evaluation report of body damage evaluation.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Evolution, current situation and future perspectives of post-traumatic personal injury.
The mission of the expert in the evaluation of personal injury.
Damage patterns and theirevaluation - introductory concepts.
Tables of disabilities and impairmentscalculation.
Framework and medico-legalassumptions of the assessment of personal injury in Labor Law.
Framework and medico-legalassumptions of the expert assessment of personal injury in Civil Law.
Three-dimensionalassessment of the damage in person.

Framework and medico-legalassumptions of the expert assessment of personalinjuryCriminal Law.
The medico-legal expertise of asexual nature.
The relevance of expert evidence.
Framework and legalassumptions of production and evaluation of personal injury in Criminal Law.
The causation of establishment (medicalliability).
The specificproblems of the prior state.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Harper I,Kelly T, Khanna A. Editors.The Clinic and the CourtLaw, Medicine and Anthropology; 2015
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Magalhães T. et altri.  Recomendações gerais para a realização de relatórios periciais de clínica forense no âmbito do Direito Civil. Rev. Port. do Dano Corporal, 23. IUC, 2010;19 (20)
Magalhães T. et altri... Recomendações gerais para a realização de relatórios periciais de clínica forense no âmbito do Direito do Trabalho. Rev. Port. do Dano Corporal, 23. IUC,. 2010; 19 (20)
Oliveira, C. et al. A avaliação pericial do estado de saúde: uma problemática em Clínica Forense. et altri.Rev. Port. do Dano Corporal, 23. IUC, 2011
Oliveira, C.; Corte-Real, F.; Vieira, D.N. Estado anterior.Contributo para a sua caracterização na perspectiva da avaliação médico-legal. Rev. Port. do Dano Corporal, 23. IUC, 2012.