Forensic Clinic

Code:

PD_CF54

Acronym:

PD_CF54

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Forensic Sciences

Instance: 2025/2026 - SP

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Public Health and Forensic Sciences, and Medical Education
Course/CS Responsible:	Doctoral Programme in Forensic Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
PDCF	11	Current Studies Plan	1	-	9	42	243

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To develop knowledge, skills and competences in clinical forensic medicine, allowing students to actively participate in in forensic medical procedures, namely for post traumatic personal harm assessment, domestic violence and maltreatment cases evaluation, and sexual crimes examination, as well as in the elaboration of the forensic medical report and in the discussion of the results in the forensic expertise setting.

Learning outcomes and competences

Being the concern to provide students with knowledge, skills and competencies that enable them to actively participate in a clinical forensic exam in any scope of Law it may take place, teaching methodology is adequate through practical classes, in order to allow the training of gestures which are expectable in a real situation and that are important to attain in this context.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. General methodologies for the assessment of personal harm. Causality nexus, previous state, healing and medico-legal consolidation.


2. Forensic medical assessment in the Criminal Law setting: offenses to the physical integrity, domestic violence and maltreatment, sexual offenses.


3. Forensic medical assessment in the Civil Law setting: temporary and permanent harms. Tables of impairment and disability.


4. Forensic medical assessment in the Labor Law setting: temporary and permanent harms. Tables of impairment and disability.


5. 5. The forensic medical report. General structure. Specificities according to the law setting.

Mandatory literature

Magalhães, T et al; Procedimentos forenses no âmbito da recolha de informação, exame físico e colheita de vestígios em crianças e jovens vitimas de abuso físico ou sexual, 2011
Magalhães, T et al; Recomendações gerais para a realização de relatórios periciais de clínica forense no âmbito do Direito Penal., 2010
Magalhães, T et al; Magalhães T e col: Recomendações gerais para a realização de relatórios periciais de clínica forense relativos ao dano pós-traumático, 2010
Magalhães, T et al; Recomendações gerais para a realização de relatórios periciais de clínica forense no âmbito do Direito Civil, 2010

Teaching methods and learning activities

Being the concern to provide students with knowledge, skills and competencies that enable them to actively participate in a clinical forensic exam in any scope of Law it may take place, teaching methodology is adequate through practical classes, in order to allow the training of gestures which are expectable in a real situation and that are important to attain in this context.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	30,00
Trabalho escrito	70,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	2,00
Estudo autónomo	84,00
Frequência das aulas	40,00
Total:	126,00

Eligibility for exams

42 hours of clinical practice (participation in forensic medical exams of victims of trauma of diverse etiologies, with a ratio teacher:student of 1:2.

Students will be evaluated though a written assignment (original research or monograph), its oral presentation and discussion, being its score equivalent to the final grade of the curricular unit.

Calculation formula of final grade

Students will be evaluated though a written assignment (original research or monograph), its oral presentation and discussion, being its score equivalent to the final grade of the curricular unit.