Forensic Medicine at the Emergence Room

Code:

OPT102

Acronym:

MFSU

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Medicine

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Public Health and Forensic Sciences, and Medical Education Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master in Medicine

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIMED	2	Plano Oficial 2021	5	-	2	19	54

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

To provide future medical doctors who may come to work in urgent medical care settings in their future, with knowledge, skills and atitudes that garantee a proper perfomance of clinical gestures with forensic character which are adequate from a technical, ethical and legal point of view. Their intervention, if adequate, may be decisive in the best interest of patiens.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is expected that the future doctors who receive this medical education learn how to garantee the best interest of patients in their medical and forensic pratice, respecting issues of professional responsibility and medical ethics.

Working method

Presencial

Program

Traumatic injuries… finding the mechanism of their production.

To preserve injuries for future use: how to describe and photodocument.

Evidence administration (physical and biological), other biological evidences, clothing and other objects. Crimes and accidents.

Firearm wounds. How to act.

Medical procedures following a death.

The medical doctor approach to a victim of sexual aggression. The exam and follow-up

Mandatory literature

Magalhães T; Agressões sexuais. Intervenção pericial integrada, SPECAN, 2013
Dinis-Oliveira R, e col; Collection of biological samples in forensic toxicology. Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, 2010 (Collection of biological samples in forensic toxicology. Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, 20(7):363-414, 2010. )
Madea, B; Handbook of Forensic Medicine, Wiley, 2014
Magalhães, T. & Santos, A.; Textos de apoio - Moodle
Corte-Real, F., Santos, A., Cainé, L. & Cunha, E. (Coords.); Tratado de Medicina Legal, PACTOR, 2022. ISBN: 978-989-693-143-8

Complementary Bibliography

Giardino, AP, Datner, EM, Janice, B; Sexual assault. Victimization across the life span. A clinical Guide., GE medical publishing, 2003

Teaching methods and learning activities

Practical and theoretical classe - a total of 40.5 hours: 14 contact hours (34.6%), in 7 practical and theoretical classes of 2 hours each, at thursdays, from 3 to 7 pm. 1.5 ECTS

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	100,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	26,50
Frequência das aulas	14,00
Total:	40,50

Eligibility for exams

The minimum frequency is of 75% of contact classes and a minimum grade of 9.5 points (0-20) in continuous assessment.

Calculation formula of final grade

Assessment will consider the oral participation in classes and the mandatory gestures evalutation within the issues discussed in class.