39181 - Legal Medicine and Professional Ethics

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dietistic (cod. 8470)

Course contents

Introduction to forensic medicine and law

Information and consent

Professional secret

Information activity and legal qualifications of health professionals

Offenses punishable ex officio

Health documentation

Causation and health responsibility

The code of ethics

The health professions

Forensic Toxicology

Hints of forensic traumatology

Readings/Bibliography

Any updated text in forensics.

Hint: Cingolani, Fallani, Pelotti. Legal medicine. Aesculapius publishing company, 2019

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Analysis of cases and sentences

Assessment methods

Written test with multiple choice questions.

The test will include 32 questions: the answer to 30 questions corresponds to the grade 30.

The answer to 32 questions to 30 cum laude.

Each question is worth one point.

There are no penalties for wrong answers.

Teaching tools

Slides provided in class

Office hours

See the website of Arianna Giorgetti