TOXICOLOGY AND LEGAL MEDICINE Single channel

Chair (Coordinator) and Rapporteur: ROMINA SCARSELLONE

Module 1: PHARMACOLOGY

Activity type
Scienze medico-chirurgiche
SSD
BIO/14
Year
2nd year
Semester
2nd semester
CFU
1
Hours distribution
10 classroom hours
Lecturers
STEFANO PONTONE

Module 2: DIAGNOSTICS FOR IMAGE AND RADIOTHERAPY

Activity type
Scienze della prevenzione e dei servizi sanitari
SSD
MED/36
Year
2nd year
Semester
2nd semester
CFU
2
Hours distribution
20 classroom hours
Lecturers
ROMINA SCARSELLONE

Module 3: LEGAL MEDICINE

Activity type
Scienze della prevenzione e dei servizi sanitari
SSD
MED/43
Year
2nd year
Semester
2nd semester
CFU
2
Hours distribution
20 classroom hours
Lecturers
RAFFAELLA RINALDI

Learning outcomes

Imaging Diagnostics and Radiotherapy (Prof. ssa Romina Scarsellone)
Students who have taken the Imaging Diagnostics - Radiotherapy course will be able to have knowledge of the main imaging diagnostic methods, the use of radiation, and the main applications of biomedical technologies in medicine, evaluating their risks, costs, and benefits.

Legal Medicine (Prof. ssa Raffaella Rinaldi)
Upon completion of the course the student must know the legislation and the laws of the state, as well as the principles of public and administrative law governing the profession, the disciplinary, ethical and deontological principles of the profession, problems related to the pratictioner-patient relationship and understanding of the principles underlying the scientific methodology.
Upon completion of the course the student must be able to understand the medico-legal aspects of the profession, the duties that derive from the patient-health relationship, relationship between health care - public structure; relationship between health and state, legal consequences of his work.

Prerequisites

knowledge of the Italian language

Programme

Imaging Diagnostics and Radiotherapy (Prof.ssa Romina Scarsellone)
Basic principles; Naturally occurring radiation; Ionizing and non-ionizing artificial radiation;
The principles of radiation protection; Risk from external and internal irradiation; Main radioactive and radiation sources; Radiogenic machines used for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes; Prevention and protection rules; Radioactive waste; Relevant legislation.

Legal Medicine (Prof.ssa Raffaella Rinaldi)
Definition and partition of Forensic medicine; crimes against life and individual safety; obligation of information to the Judicial Authority. Obligations of reporting infective and diffusive diseases; outlines on social insurances; civil law forensic medicine (juridical faculty and power of action, interdiction, disqualification). Professional ethics. Consent of the assignee; professional secret; failure to assist; patient’s medical chart; obligations resulting from the law on drugs; professional responsibility of the professional.
This program will be carried out with schedule of the lessons published on the website of the CdS in the section dedicated to the timetable of the lessons.

Books

FOR THE SUBJECT OF DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING AND RADIOTHERAPY, NO TEXTBOOKS ARE REQUIRED. HANDOUTS AND STUDY MATERIAL WILL BE PROVIDED DIRECTLY BY THE TEACHER.

FOR THE SUBJECT OF FORENSIC MEDICINE
To pass the exame, we suggesta theoretical deedening already frome the beginning of the course attendance. For the purpose of consultation and in-depth study, the recomended books are:
- di Luca N.M., Feola T. Marinelli E., Ricci S. Nuovo Compendio di Medicina legale, Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino, 2021
- Autori vari. Medicina Legale. Per studenti e medici di medicina generale Ed. Idelson-Gnocchi 2020


Bibliography

Module: PHARMACOLOGY
N/D
Module: DIAGNOSTICS FOR IMAGE AND RADIOTHERAPY
N/D
Module: LEGAL MEDICINE
N/D

Lessons mode

Lectures with attendance recorded on sign-in sheets.

Frequency

Attendance at classes will be recorded by signing in and out on attendance sheets prepared by the Academic Office of the degree program.

Exam mode

WRITTEN AND ORAL EXAM SEPARATE

Example exam questions

In the evaluation of a suspected prostate neoplasm, which of the following imaging techniques is used first?

Arguments

  • This program will be carried out with scheduling of the lessons published on the CdS website in the section dedicated to the class timetable.
    • Books: Handouts -   di Luca N.M., Feola T.  Marinelli E., Ricci S. Nuovo Compendio di Medicina legale, Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino, 2021- Autori vari. Medicina Legale. Per studenti e medici di medicina generale Ed. Idelson-Gnocchi 2020 

Sustainability goals

  • Goal3
  • Goal4
  • Academic year2026/2027
  • Degree program to which the course belongsEnvironment and Workplace Prevention Techniques - Course C - ASL Frosinone
  • Languageita
  • CFU5 CFU, distributed among 3 integrated didactic modules
  • Total duration50 hours