Legal Medicine and Forensic Toxicology I

Code:

MD511

Acronym:

MLTFI

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Medical Teaching
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Masters Degree in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIM	206	Plan 2007 to 2014	5	-	3,5	50	94,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To provide a journey of knowledge and skills acquisition aiming to prepare future medical professionals to act correctly and appropriately when confronted in their professional life with medico legal issues, regardless of their field of expertise, in order to contribute to a good application of justice, in the best interest of victims.

Program

Scope, goals and competences of Legal Medicine and other forensic sciences.
Bodily damage assessment in Penal, Civil and Labor Law.
Sudden death and accidental deaths. Suicide and homicide.
Crime scene investigation.
Sexual Crimes. Abuse in familial context.
Forensic psichiatry and psychology.
Forensic genetics and biology. Criminalistics.
Forensic toxicology.
Forensic anthropology and odontology.
Practical sessions: autopsies and clinical exams in Legal Medicine, forensic psychology, criminalistics and forensic toxicology.
Four hours/week of practical sessions, on the above mentioned areas (20 hours of clinical exames, 20 hours of Forensic Pathology, 8 hours of Forensic Psychology and 4 hours of Laboratorial forensic sciences).

Mandatory literature

Oliveira Sá F; Clínica Médico-Legal da reparação do dano corporal em direiro civil, APADAC, Coimbra, 1992
Bessières-Roques I, Fournier C, Hugues-Béjui H, Riche F; Précis d'évaluation du dommage corporel, L'Argus de l'Assurance, 2ª ed, 2001
PinedaPB; Manual de Valoración y Baremación del daño corporal, 3ª ed, Editorial Comares, Madrid, 2002
Calabuig JAG; Medicina Legal y Toxicologia, 6ª ed, Masson, Barcelona, 2004
Klaassen C, Amdur M, Doull J:; Cassarett&Doull's Toxicology. The basic science of poisons, McGraw-Hill, 6ª ed, 2001
Jarreta MBM:; La prueba del DNA en Medicina Forense, Masson, Madrid,, 1999
Coordenação: Teresa Magalhães; Abuso de Crianças e Jovens - da suspeita ao diagnóstico, Lidel, 2010. ISBN: 978-972-757-655-5
Teresa Magalhães (coordination); Abuse & Neglect Series 1 - To improve the managemente of child abuse and neglect, SPECAN , 2011. ISBN: 978-989-97275-0-2
Magalhães T:; Maus tratos em crianças e jovens, Quarteto Editora, Coimbra,, 2002
Magalhães T.; Estudo tridimensional do dano corporal: lesão, função e situação. Sua aplicação médico-legal, Almedina, Coimbra, 1998
Sauko P, Knight B; Forensic Pathology, 3ª ed, Edward Arnold, London , 2004
Di Maio VJM, Dana SE; Manual de Patología Forense, Trad. Concheiro L, Diaz de Santos, Madrid, 2003

Complementary Bibliography

Williams DJ, Ansford A, Priday DS, Forrest AS:; Forensic Pathology. Colour Guide, Churchill Livingstone, 1998
Gall JAM, Boos SC, Payne-James JJ, Culliford EJ:; Forensic Medicine. Colour Guide, Churchill Livingstone, 2003
Teresa Magalhães; Violência e Abuso - Estado da Arte, Impresa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2010. ISBN: 978-989-26-0025-3

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	0,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Minimum of 75% of classes attendance and according to the rules of the course as well as a minimum of 9.5 classification (0-20) in the final exam.
16 weeks of theoretical classes - 16 hours
12 weeks of practical sessions - 48 hours
Total of 64 hours of attendance.

Calculation formula of final grade

On the continuous assessment, the student shall be assessed only by Forensic Pathology and Forensic Clinics's teachers, according to the parameters that follow:
- knowledge: role and competences of legal medicine and other forensic sciences in articulation with health services; methodology and approach to the victim; general methods of bodily harm assessment; general methodology of medico-legal autopsies; preservation and collection of biological and physical traces.
- professional attitude and behavior: adequate approach to direct and indirect victims; exemption, impartiality and caution in forensic exams; team work.
- clinical and comunication skills: collecting information, performing physical exams and autopsies; selecting, preserving, collecting, packing and issuing biological samples or other traces, ensuring the chain custody; to elaborate reports and orther documents with medico-legal relevance.
These specific 3 areas will be assessed being each worth 6, 7 and 7 points (0-20 scale), respectively.
The final grade will be calculated though the following formula:
2 x test classification + continuous assessment classification / 3