Forensic Medicine - FGP072

• Title: Forensic Medicine
• Guaranteed by: Department of Forensic Medicine (15-340)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:15/24, C+Ex [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: deregister from the exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled
• Guarantor: prof. MUDr. Petr Hejna, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : {General Medicine 3rd year}
• Incompatibility : FV10057
• Interchangeability : FA0110064
• In complex pre-requisite: FG10076, FG10077, FG10078, FG10079, FG10080, FG10097

Annotation

English

Annotation: Death, postmortem changes, autopsy, identification, wounds, natural death, ballistics, traffic injuries, bloodstains, forensic alcohol analysis, sudden death, sudden infant death syndrome, violent death, poisons, suffocation, strangulation, drowning, death certification. Entrance Conditions: No prerequisites. Study Outcomes: 1. Students will gain basic theoretical knowledge of forensic medicine, excluding direct application to real cases. 2. Students will understand essential forensic findings through a large set of real photographs. 3. Students will participate in autopsy room demonstrations and observe forensic procedures.

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2026)

Czech

Anotace Kategorie smrti, List o prohlídce zemřelého, posmrtné změny, pitva, identifikace, úrazové změny, úmrtí z chorobných příčin, střelná poranění, dopravní úraz, krevní stopy, alkohol, náhlá smrt, násilná smrt, náhlá smrt kojence, intoxikace, dušení, strangulace, utopení. Vstupní podmínky Prerekvizity nejsou dány. Výstupy 1. Student získá základní teoretické znalosti ze soudního lékařství včetně jejich aplikace na reálné případy z praxe. 2. Student bude seznámen se základními obrazovými soudnělékařskými nálezy prezentovanými zejména na široké škále reálných fotografií. 3. Student absolvuje demonstrační pitvu na pitevním sále, kde mu budou prezentovány základní soudnělékařské nálezy prakticky.

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2026)

Literature

Compulsory literature:

R. Shepherd Simpson's Forensic Medicine, Hodder Arnold Publication, 2003, 208 pages.

Our source materials:

Web application:

Atlas of forensic medicine (www.uslhk.cz). You will get data for login during the lessons. 

 

 

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2026)

Requirements to the exam

Requirements for Participation

Only students officially enrolled in the subject of Forensic Medicine in SIS are eligible to participate in lessons.

All lessons will take place in the teaching classroom of the Department of Forensic Medicine, located in the Faculty Hospital Hradec Králové (building 5/1). The final exam is held in the teaching classroom of the Fingerland Institute of Pathology (PAT2).

 

The Academic Coordinator of the course is MUDr. Lenka Zátopková, Ph.D. ([e-mail], [phone]). The Department Secretary is Mrs Vladana Kadeřávková ([e-mail], [phone]).

Practical Classes

Attendance at all practical classes is compulsory. Attendance will be checked at the beginning of each class by the teacher, who will read the names from the attendance list; each student must confirm their presence orally.

·        Late arrivals will not be accepted.

·        Attendance cannot be granted retroactively.

 

One absence is allowed without a necessary excuse. If a student misses more than 2 practical classes, they must submit a review paper on one of the selected medicolegal topics (5–12 pages, Times New Roman, 12-point, double-spaced). The paper must adhere to the standard rules of a scientific review and be submitted to the Academic Coordinator (L. Zátopková, M.D.) at least 10 days before the scheduled exam. After revision, credit will be granted.

 

In the case of a higher number of absences (without an objective reason), it is necessary to complete the missed practical classes with another group. In specially justified cases and after prior agreement, an oral examination covering the entire scope of the Forensic Medicine course will be required.

In the event of a long-term absence due to health reasons (confirmed by a physician), substitution arrangements will be made on an individual basis with the Academic Coordinator.

All questions concerning possible absences or timetable changes must be addressed in written form to the Academic Coordinator (L. Zátopková, M.D.).

Credit

The Academic Coordinator will grant credit under the following conditions:

·        completion of all lectures,

·        completion of all practical classes (with possible verification of theoretical knowledge during practical sessions),

 

Credit will be recorded in SIS after successful completion of the final exam.

Exam

The final exam will take the form of an online written test in the Moodle platform, held on the dates announced in SIS, using the faculty laptops available in the teaching classroom (“microscopic”) of the Fingerland Institute of Pathology (PAT2).

The test takes place outside regular classes, in the building of the Fingerland Institute of Pathology, on faculty laptops, at the scheduled time (as listed in SIS), under the supervision of an authorised teacher of the Department of Forensic Medicine.

 

To pass the test, it is necessary to have a valid access to Moodle/SIS (login username and password, which must be known and entered into the examination tablet). Without a successful login, the test cannot be taken; repeated incorrect entries will block access for at least 20 minutes.

A prerequisite for registration for and taking the examination test is the fulfilment of the requirements for obtaining course credit, including mandatory attendance at practical classes; otherwise, the test cannot be taken “in advance”. Test dates will be published in the SIS. Registration and cancellation are available only via the SIS (cancellation must be made no later than 24 hours before the start of the test). Any absence due to health-related or other serious reasons must be documented with official confirmation. Unexcused absence results in the loss of the examination attempt.

If a student requests a specific exam date, this should ideally be communicated to the Academic Coordinator, MUDr., at the beginning of the course. L. Zátopková, who may arrange such a date depending on the Department’s schedule and the capacity of the teaching room at the Fingerland

The test contains 60 questions on essential forensic medicine topics, with three answer choices (single best answer choice test). The limit for passing is 60 minutes. To pass the test, you must get at least 40 correct answers.

The detailed evaluation is here:

60–54 – 1 (excellent)

53–48 – 2 (very good)

47–40 – 3 (good)

39 and less – 4

Upon successful completion, we will record your credit and mark it in SIS.

 

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2026)

Syllabus

All lectures and practical courses focus on essential forensic topics, including extensive photographic collections of significant forensic findings. Knowledge of these findings is necessary to pass the exam. Presentations of practical case examples are also included.

Lectures – in person:

·        Asphyxia

·        Drowning

·        Electrocution

·        Traffic accidents

 

Lectures – online (distance form):

·        Alcohol: blood levels, alcoholic beverages, ethanol and methanol poisoning

·        ALTEST, Widmark test, gas chromatography

·        Calculation of blood alcohol concentration

·        Medicolegal aspects of alcohol intoxication

·        Sudden and unexpected natural death in adults

·        Forensic radiology and photography

 

Lecturers:

·        prof. Petr Hejna, M.D., Ph.D., MBA

·        Lenka Zátopková, M.D., Ph.D.

·        Michaela Ublová, M.D., Ph.D.

·        Štěpánka Kučerová, M.D., Ph.D.

·        Dalibor Kovařík, M.D.

 

Practical Courses:

 

·        Forensic medicine basics

·        Types of autopsies

·        External examination of an assaulted person

·        Exhumation

·        Signs of death and postmortem changes

·        Death certification protocol

·        Supravital and vital reactions

·        Estimation of the time of death

·        Blunt and sharp force injuries, postmortem injuries

·        Firearm injuries

·        Autopsy demonstrations

·        Identification procedures

·        Hypothermia, hyperthermia (excluding CO poisoning)

·        Sudden natural death in childhood

·        Child abuse

·        Basic medicolegal terminology

·        Review of essential photographic findings

·        Presentation of unusual medicolegal cases

 

Teachers:

·        prof. Petr Hejna, M.D., Ph.D., MBA

·        Lenka Zátopková, M.D., Ph.D.

·        Michaela Ublová, M.D., Ph.D.

·        Štěpánka Kučerová, M.D., Ph.D.

·        Dalibor Kovařík, M.D.

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (08.02.2026)