Personal Injury Assessment
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Forensic Sciences |
Instance: 2021/2022 - SP (of 13-09-2021 to 15-07-2022)
Cycles of Study/Courses
Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
MCF |
14 |
Current Studies Plan |
1 |
- |
6 |
40 |
162 |
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
To provide specialized training in the areas of Forensic Odontology and Forensic Anthropology, to promote knowledge, skills and attitudes of the future professionals in this area, namely in human identification from dental tissues and bone.
Learning outcomes and competences
The unit’s contents, while not comprehensively addressing all of the complexity and magnitude of the problems inherent to the application of dentistry and anthropology to the forensic context, address the main key points in order to create a broad understanding of the topic, while allowing students to develop capabilities to deepen their knowledge according to their intervening area. The contents were developed to raise the students’ sensitivity and critical judgment, thus promoting their problem solving ability.
Working method
Presencial
Program
- Human identification using comparative and reconstructive methods
1.1. The skeleton
1.2. The teeth
1.3. Soft tissues
1.4. Genetic fingerprinting
- Bite Marks
- Domestic Violence
- Forensic Taphonomy.
- Dating of skeletonized remains: morphological and chemical methods
- Cause and manner of death: identification of skeletal trauma injuries - injuries antemortem, perimortem and postmortem. Peri-fatal injuries. Postmortem changes.
7. Analysis of articles: Interpretation of results.
Mandatory literature
Magalhães T et al. ; Recomendações gerais para a realização de relatórios periciais de clínica forense relativos ao dano pós-traumático.
Teaching methods and learning activities
This unit aims to communicate specialized knowledge about the issues at hand and apply this knowledge in a practical way, so that the theoretical and practical approach, sustained on real case work, seems more appropriate.
Evaluation Type
Evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Exame |
100,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Designation |
Time (hours) |
Estudo autónomo |
122,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
40,00 |
Total: |
162,00 |
Eligibility for exams
Obtaining a minimum grade of 9.5 values and presence of at least 75% of the contact hours.
Calculation formula of final grade
100% = test score/written assignment.