76136 - Legal Medicine

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student possesses knowledge, to the extent of their competence, related to the field of forensic medicine. Specific areas of expertise within the field include social medicine, criminology, forensic psychopathology, forensic toxicology, professional ethics, medical ethics, and clinical bioethics.

Course contents

  • The exercise of healthcare profession and the code of ethics
  • Offenses against life and personal safety - The causal relationship
  • Offenses against personal freedom
  • Legal obligations of healthcare professionals
  • Criminal and civil liability in the exercise of the profession
  • Consent, refusal, and waiver of treatment. Shared care planning
  • Voluntary termination of pregnancy
  • Thanatology and forensic pathology

Readings/Bibliography

Materials provided during the lessons

Teaching methods

Lectures

Assessment methods

Written test

Teaching tools

Power Point presentations

Office hours

See the website of Filippo Pirani