Legal and Forensic Medicine and Medical Law
4
2015-2016
02026237
Clinical Specialities
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
4.5
Compulsory
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado
Recommended Prerequisites
Before starting this unit, students should possess the following knowledge base:
- Introduction to Medicine
- Introduction to Scientific Research
- Basic medical and specialty knowledge (Physiology, Pathophysiology, Pathology, Clinical Medicine, etc..).
- Information Technology
Teaching Methods
Lectures, practical classes (involving assistance to forensic expertise and case studies), seminars and preparation of a monograph on the a medicolegal subject at the choice of the student.
Learning Outcomes
The curricular unit of Legal Medicine aims to provide to the future professional the basic skills that any doctor should have in order to know, in the course of his professional practice, how to identify and steer situations with possible medicolegal relevance (situations of mistreatment, abuse, aggression, simulations, etc.) and to adopt the necessary procedures for proper articulation of medicine with the judiciary and forensic system. in terms of identifying, collecting, packaging and preservation of any evidence and samples; necessary to substantiate later diagnoses and expert evaluations; advice and guidance of their patients regarding the obligations and the rights they enjoy from the judicial point of view and the need to adopt a permanent posture of prudence, objectivity, accuracy and fairness.
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
General Aspects (6 hours); Thanatology (6 hours); Forensic pathology (10 hours); Clinical forensic medicine (14 hours); Forensic Genetics (6 hours); Forensic toxicology (6 hours); Legal Medicine and other forensic areas (6 hours); Medical Law (10 hours)
Head Lecturer(s)
Duarte Nuno Pessoa Vieira
Assessment Methods
Assessment
Other: 2.5%
Research work: 7.5%
Exam: 90.0%
Bibliography
- Payne-James, J; Byard, R.W; Corey, T.; Henderson, C. (Eds): Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine. Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2005.
- Saukko, P.; Knight, B.: Knight’Forensic Pathology, 3rd ed., London, Arnold, 2004
- Siegel, J.; Saukko, P.; Knupfer, G. (Eds): Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences. San Diego, Academic Press, 2000.