Medicine and Surgery "C" - Roma Azienda Policlinico Umberto I

Activity type

Medicina e sanità pubblica e degli ambienti di lavoro e scienze medico legali, Attività formative affini o integrative

SSD

MED/43, MED/43

Year

6th year

Semester

2nd semester

CFU

4

Hours distribution

50 classroom hours

Lecturers

ENRICO MARINELLI
STEFANO FERRACUTI
FEDERICA UMANI RONCHI

Activity type

Scienze umane, politiche della salute e management sanirario

SSD

MED/02

Year

6th year

Semester

2nd semester

CFU

1

Hours distribution

13 classroom hours

Lecturers

GILBERTO CORBELLINI

The course is located at the end of a training course started in the second semester of the sixth year.
The purpose is to make people learn:
- the legal and deontological profiles of the medical profession;
- the duties of the doctor towards the patient and the criminal, civil, administrative and ordering system;
- the normative and theoretical-practical aspects of medical-legal activities in criminal, civil, social security, welfare and insurance;
- the scientific bases on tanatology, forensic pathology and forensic psychiatry.

Module: LEGAL MEDICINE


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Module: HISTORY OF MEDICINE - BIOETHICS
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Elements of law, notions of anatomy, physiology and pathological anatomy, general notions of traumatology.

Introduction to Forensic Medicine. Purpose, methodology. Legal elements. Constitutional principles. Rules and codes. Levels of judgment. How preliminary investigations work. Medico-legal issues of criminal relevance (report, professional secrecy, crimes against life and personal safety).
Thanatology and traumatology of medico-legal relevance (injuries from physical means; blunt force injuries, stabbings, firearm injuries, asphyxiation).
Physician criminal and civil liability: new regulations. Clinical risk programs and the prevention of medical errors. The medical record. Medico-legal issues of civil relevance (personal injury and compensation obligations).
Forensic toxicology: general aspects. Pharmacovigilance. Intoxication from psychoactive substances. Drugs of abuse, alcohol, and driving. Analytical problems in toxicology.
Ethics, Deontology, Bioethics, and Law: A historical, conceptual, and practical map for navigating evidence-based medicine, pseudomedicine, social and professional values, and laws [Bioethics Module].
Bioethics of early life choices: abortion, moral/legal status of the human embryo, regenerative medicine, organoids, stem cell tourism [Bioethics Module].
Informed Consent: origins, evolution, ethical and legal bases, conditions for IC, DAT, etc. Bioethics of end-of-life choices: from acute to degenerative death, palliative care, physician-assisted suicide,
euthanasia, international legislation [Bioethics Module].
Issues of imputability of severely ill psychiatric patients. Social dangerousness and security measures. Protective measures for the incapacitated [Forensic Psychopathology Module].
Informed consent in individuals with mental disorders. Supportive administration. TSO [Forensic Psychopathology Module].

di Luca, Feola, Ricci, and Marinelli. Compendium of Forensic Medicine. Minerva Medica, 2021.
Umani Ronchi, Bolino, Grande, and Marinelli. Forensic Pathology, Giuffrè, 1994.
G. Corbellini, Bioethics for the Perplexed: A Rationalized Guide, Mondadori, Milan, 2016.
G. Corbellini, E. Sirgiovanni, It's All the Brain's Fault: An Introduction to Neuroethics, Mondadori, Milan, 2015.

Module: LEGAL MEDICINE


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Module: HISTORY OF MEDICINE - BIOETHICS
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Module: LEGAL MEDICINE


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Module: HISTORY OF MEDICINE - BIOETHICS
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Mandatory attendance in person.

Oral exam with questions related to the course content, designed to establish an interactive relationship.
For the bioethics module, write an essay on a topic chosen from approximately twenty topics: e.g., Ethical and political implications of stem cell tourism; Ethics of Artificial Intelligence in medicine; Ethics of neuroscience in forensic medicine.

Module: LEGAL MEDICINE


N/D
Module: HISTORY OF MEDICINE - BIOETHICS
N/D

Module: LEGAL MEDICINE


N/D
Module: HISTORY OF MEDICINE - BIOETHICS
N/D