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ERASMUS - Forensic Medicine - CERA5P0093
Title: ERASMUS - Soudní lékařství
Guaranteed by: Department of Forensic Medicine 3FM CU and UHKV (12-USOL)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2015
Semester: both
Points: 1
E-Credits: 1
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 0/24, C(+Ex) [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: MUDr. Jiří Hladík
Classification: Medicine > Clinical Disciplines
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
Last update: Petra Wágnerová (22.09.2020)
Forensic Medicine Course Learning objectives: By the end of the module students should have knowledge about: 1) forensic traumatology ? road traffic injuries, blunt injuries, incised injuries, missile injuries, suffocation and asphyxia, heat injury, electrical fatalities, barotrauma. 2) forensic toxicology ? poisoning, drug abuse. 3) medico-legal aspects of sexual offences, physical abuse, abortion 4) the ethics of medical practice ? duties of physicians, medical confidentiality, consent to medical treatment 5) medical malpractice ? medical negligence, professional misconduct
Aim of the course -
Last update: Petra Wágnerová (22.09.2020)

Aim of study
- to get acquainted with forensic sciences and especially forensic medicine in general.
- to get basic knowledge of procedures that are needed in the examination of dead body.
- to get basic knowledge of the causes and mrchanisms of sudden and violent death.
- to get acquainted with medical jurisprudence in the Czech Republic and medical ethics in general.
- to get acquainted with basic larathory methods - forensic serology, forensic toxicology.

Literature -
Last update: Petra Wágnerová (22.09.2020)

B. Knight, 1997 or later: Simpson´s Forensic Medicine, 11th ed. by Arnold
B. Knight, 1991 or later: Forensic Pathology, ed. by Arnold

Teaching methods -
Last update: Petra Wágnerová (22.09.2020)

Online teaching:

1. Online seminars

2. Study materials in VYUKA

3. Individual consultations in Department of Forensic Medicine FNKV (contact petra.sabatova@fnkv.cz  For more information)

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: Petra Wágnerová (22.09.2020)

Elements qualifying for credit.

- attendance at 100 % of lectures and seminars is required.
A student may be required to do additional work to compensate for absence (whatever the reason for the absence) and to demonstrate that there has been coverage of the materials and skills which that lecture was designed to address.

 

 Questions for the examination of forensic medicine:

1. Death, the diagnosis and early signs sof death.

2. The late changes of death.

3. Estimation of the time of death.

4. Autolysis, putrefaction, damage to the dead body caused by animals.

5. Mummification, adipocire formation.

6. Vital injuries, distinction between ante-mortem and post-mortem injury. The estimation of the approximative age of wounds.

7. Sudden and unexpected death due to natural causes.

8. Sudden infant death syndrom.

9. Violent death.

10. Autopsy. Forensic autopsy.

11. Medical certificate of cause of death.

12. Legal pre-requisites for autopsy.

13. Reconstruction of the crime.

14. Identification of the living and of the dead.

15. The role and methods of forensic medicine.

16. Physician as an expert and as an witness.

17. Medical certification and opinion, expert evidence.

18. Duties of the physician.

19. Professional confidentiality.

20. Medical duties in emergencies.

21. Duty to give information and obtain consent to treatment.

22. Duty of treatment. Euthanasia.

23. Legal responsibilities of the physician.

24. Medical negligence.

25. Medical malpractice.

26. Incised wounds.

27. Hacking wounds.

28. Punctured wounds.

29. Lacerated wounds.

30. Bruises. Abrasions.

31. Firearm wounds.

32. Regional injuries of medico-legal importance.

33. Head injuries.

34. Fractures of the spine and injuries of the spinal cord.

35. Injuries to the chest.

36. Injuries to the neck.

37. Injuries to the abdomen.

38. Injuries to the urogenital tract.

39. Injuries to the limbs.

40. Injuries in traffic accidents.

41. Injuries caused by falls.

42. Injuries due to explosions.

43. Unnatural death due to asphyxia.

44. Electrical injuries.

45. Injuries caused by high temperature.

46. Injuries caused by low temperature.

47. Radiation damage.

48. Poisons and poisoning. Accidental, suicidal and criminal poisoning.

49. Metal poisoning.

50. Carbon monoxyde poisoning.

51. Cyanide poisoning.

52. Narcotic poisoning.

53. Poisoning by corrosives.

54. Psychosedative drugs.

55. Pesticides.

56. Alcohol intoxication.

57. Methanol poisoning.

58. Atropin poisoning.

59. Strychnin poisoning.

60. Alcohol in relation to road traffic.

61. Drug addiction. Legal definitions and sanctions.

62. Starvation. Hunger strike.

63. Injuries by changes in atmospheric pressure.

64. Legal and illegal abortion.

65. Sexual offences. Rape.

66. Battered child syndrom.

67. Suicides.

68. Homicide. Murder. Legal definitions.

69. Infanticide.

70. Decreased criminal responsibility. Insanity.

71. Examination of biological traces.

72. Examination of blood stains.

73. Examination of seminal stains.

 

 

Examinations in:

 

Fakultní nemocnice Královské Vinohrady, pavilon CH, 2. patro,

 

Department of forensic medicine

 

Secretary department of forensic medicine:

 

Petra Wágnerová

 

Tel: 267 16 25 05

 

e-mail: petra.wagnerova@lf3.cuni.cz  nebo smutnapetra@seznam.cz

 

Syllabus -
Last update: Petra Wágnerová (22.09.2020)

1. Blunt injuries - Abrasions, bruises, contusions. Lacerated wounds. Head injuries. Road
traffic injuries.
2. Incised wounds - Hacking injuries. Punctured wounds. Complications. Vital signs.
3. Firearm wounds - Entry wound. Exit wound.Shot channel. Electrical injuries. Death
caused through contact with electrical conductors. Death caused by
lightning stroke. Exposure to high and low temperature.
4. Death by suffocation - Throttling. Strangulation. Hanging. External occlusion of air.
External compression on the chest and abdominal walls. Choking
by foreign body. Drowning.
5. Toxicology - Alcohol and road traffic accidents.

 
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