76136 - Legal Medicine

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Docente: Susi Pelotti
  • Credits: 1
  • SSD: MED/43
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5907)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the module, the student possesses knowledge, to the extent of his or her competence, related to the field of forensic medicine; social medicine, criminology, forensic psychopathology, forensic toxicology, deontology, medical ethics and clinical bioethics are specific areas of expertise in the field.

Course contents

The nurse's profession: autonomy and responsibility

Relationship with the judicial authority. 

Professional and official secrecy

Crimes against the person

The voluntary interruption of pregnancy and conscientious objection

Violence against fragile persons: medico-legal aspects

Readings/Bibliography

Updated text of Legal Medicine for the Nursing Profession

Web articles for sentences

Teaching methods

lessons

Assessment methods

Written test:multiple-choice questions

Teaching tools

Slides

Office hours

See the website of Susi Pelotti