Legal Medicine

Code:

D506

Acronym:

ML

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2005/2006 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
D	104	Official Study Plan - LD	5	-	6	-

Objectives

General Aims: To provide the acquisition of knowledge and skills to prepare future medical doctors with the ability to perform in a correct and appropriate way the techniques to matters of a forensic nature, independent of their specialty, in order to contribute to the good application of justice, in the victims' best interest.
Specific Aims:
1. To provide a basic knowledge on forensic semiology and on several aspects of performance of forensic medicine and of other forensic sciences, referring to its scope, objectives and skills;
2. To supply guidelines in general on the medical performance, relative to specific forensic cases considering the fundamental transdisciplinar enunciation for the resolution of those cases, not only at a level of different medical specialties but, also, with other areas of knowledge, namely law, social service and psychology;
3. To sensitise future doctors, through contact with real cases, of the need of their involvement in actions of violence prevention (voluntary and involuntary); to stimulate the undergraduate and continues medical education in this subject.

Program

Semester discipline with 30 hours of lectures (2 classes per week of 1.5h each).
Forensic medicine and other forensic sciences. Scope, objectives and skills
The medico-legal organization and expertise.
Vitimization - medico-legal aproach.
Forensic thanatology: Legal aspects; crime scene examination; autopsy and expertise reports; cerebral death; physiopathology of death; Mechanisms and causes of death; The diagnostic of the cause of death: natural, suicide, homicide and accident; undetermined death; sudden death; suicides; homicides; accidents; Exhumation and Embalm.
Clinical Forensics: Physical assault; Abuse and neglect and Sexual Crimes; Bodily damage assessment and compensation in civil and labour law; Tridimensional assessment of corporal law (severe handicaps).
Genetics and forensic biology: scope and skills; biological research of filiation; biological and non biological criminalistics.
Forensic toxicology: scope and skills; alcohol and driving; abuse drugs and other toxic substances.
Forensic anthropology and odontology.
Forensic psychiatry and psychology.

Main Bibliography

Júlio Bobes García, Transtorno de Estrés Postraumático, Masson, S.A.
Claudio Hernández Cueto, Valoración médica del daño corporal, Masson, S.A.
Klaus Buckup, Pruebas clínicas para patología ósea, articular y muscular, Masson, S.A.

Louis Mélennec, Valoración de las discapacidades y del daño corporal, Masson, S.A.
Fernando Gil Hernández, Tratado de Medicina del Trabajo, Masson, S.A.
José Aso Escario, Traumatismos Craneales Masson, S.A.
Stephen L. Demeter, Disability Evaluation – second edition, Mosby
Linda Cocchiarella, Gunnar B. Andersson, Guides of the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, AMA Press
Rodrigo C. Miralles Marrero, Valoración del daño corporal en el aparato locomotor, Masson, S.A.
Liz Hobbs, Susan McDonough, Life after injury, Third World Network
John A. M. Gall, Stephen C. Boos, Forensic Medicine, Churchill Livingstone
David J. Williams, Anthony J. Ansford Forensic Pathology, Churchill Livingstone
Isabelle Bessières-Roques, Précis d´Évaluation du dommage corporel – 2de édition Editions L’argus de l’assurance
Donald J. Van Kirk, Vehicular Accident Investigation and Reconstruction, CRC Press
Carme Junqué, Olga Bruna,Traumatismos craneoencefálicos. Un enfoque desde la Neuropsicología y la Logopedia, Masson, S.A.
Teresa Magalhães, Maus Tratos a Crianças e Jovens, Quarteto
João Fernando Casinha Fernandes de Magalhães, Direito a viver e direito a morrer – Risco de vida nos menores filhos de Testemunhas de Jeová (4), Tese de mestrado
Fundación Mapfre Medicina, Valoración del daño corporal. Lesiones en el miembro inferior Fundación Mapfre Medicina
Rui Manuel Lopes Nunes, Bioética e Deontologia, Profissional – 2ª edição, Gráfica de Coimbra

Rui Nunes, Miguel Ricou, Cristina Nunes, Dependências Individuais e Valores Sociais, Gráfica de Coimbra
Vincent J. M. Di Maio, Suzanna E. Dana, Manual de Patología Forense, Diaz de Santos

Teresa Magalhães, Estudo Tridimensional do dano corporal: Lesão, função situação, Almedina
E. Villanueva Cañadas, Medicina Legal y Toxicología – 6ª edición, Masson, S. A.
Michael Foy, Phillip Fagg, Medicolegal Reporting in Orthopaedic Trauma – 3rd edition, Churchill Livingstone
Robin A. Cooke, Colour Atlas of Anatomical Pathology – 3rd edition, Churchill Livingstone
Fundación Mapfre Medicina, Valoración del daño corporal. Lesiones en el miembro superior Fundación Mapfre Medicina
Blanca Pérez Pineda, Manual de Valoración y baremación del daño corporal – 12ª edición, Comares editorial
Christopher R. Brigham, Leon H. Ensalada, The Guides Casebook – fifth edition, AMA Press
IMAIN – Instituto Madrileño de Atención a la Infancia, Guía para la atención del Maltrato a la Infancia por los profesionales de salud, Consejería de Salud Consejería de Integración Social
Gobierno Vasco – Departamento de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, El papel del personal sanitario en el abordaje del problema del maltrato y abandono en la infancia, Documentos de Bienestar social n.º 11
Ministerio de Asuntos Sociales, Instituto Nacional de Servicios Sociales, Maltrato Infantil e Minusvalí, Documentos Técnicos
Beate Besten, Abusos sexuales en los niños Colección Resortes Herder
M.ª Ignacia Arruabarrena y Joaquín de Paúl,Maltrato a los niños en la familia – Evaluación y tratamiento, Pirámide
A. Martínez Roig y J. de Paúl Ochotorena, Maltrato y abandono en la infancia, Biblioteca de Psicología, Psiquiatría y Salud Martinez Roca

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures, about themes related to structural areas, having as objective to
open perspectives related to general subjects, and seminars, orientated in
a practical way in which the students' participation is strongly
stimulated. In these last type of classes, subjects previously scheduled
and ideally prepared by the students (supported with the help of the study
material available via internet), are debated. In the final part of
certain classes is promoted an analysis and discussion about case-problems
(real cases) presented by the teachers.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

The marks the student must get have to be equal or higher than 10, in a scale of [0,20] in one of the following hypotheses:
a)Average between the two examinations (“frequencies”);
b)Oral examination (if the student obtained in a) a mark between 7 and 9);
c)Written final examination;
d)Oral final examination (if the student obtained in c) a mark between 7 and 9.

Calculation formula of final grade

Test with 40 multiple choice questions (0.3 marks each-12 in total) and 2 essay questions (4 marks each - 8 values in total); 1h30min of duration.

Examinations or Special Assignments

None

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

General Law and rules enforced in FDUP.

Classification improvement

Is obtained by doing a written or an oral examination