Forensic Medicine - FG10059

• Title: Forensic Medicine
• Guaranteed by: Department of Forensic Medicine (15-340)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2019 to 2019
• 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
• 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, FV10057
• Is incompatible with: FV10057
• Is interchangeable with: FV10057
• In complex pre-requisite: FG10076, FG10077, FG10078, FG10079, FG10080

Annotation

English

Last update: MUDr. Lenka Zátopková, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)

Signs of death, changes after death, autopsy, identification, wounds, ballistics, traffic injury, blood identification, alcohol and alcoholaemia, sudden death, sudden infant death syndrome, violent death, poisons, suffocation, strangulation, forensic toxicology, Death certification.

Czech

Last update: MUDr. Lenka Zátopková, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)

Známky smrti, posmrtné změny, pitva, identifikace, úrazové změny, střelná poranění, dopravní úraz, krevní stopy, alkohol, náhlá smrt, násilná smrt, náhlá smrt kojence, intoxikace, dušení, strangulace, forenzní toxikologie.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: MUDr. Lenka Zátopková, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)

Only students who have the subject „Forensic medicine“ currently assigned in SIS are allowed to participate in lessons.

 

Practical classes:

Students are required to attend all practical classes. Their presence will be checked at the beginning of each practical class by the teacher, who will read the student´s names from the signature list and each student is due to confirm his presence orally. Late coming will not be accepted. Also, we will not grant the attendance as an afterthought.

One legitimate absence is allowed. In case of missing more practical classes, the student is due to write specialized overview paperwork which should be focused on one of the selected medicolegal topic (5–12 sides, Times New Roman size 12, line spacing 2). This paperwork should keep the basic rules of specialized overview paperwork. This paperwork has to be delivered to the Department´s Executive secretary (L. Zátopková, M.D.) at least ten days before exam´s term. After the revision, the credit will be booked.

In case of a long-lasting absence due to health problems (which has to be confirmed by the doctor), this substitution will be solved individually with the Department's Executive secretary (L. Zátopková, M.D.).

All answers about the possible absences or timetable changes have to be consulted with the Department's Executive secretary (L. Zátopková, M.D.) – only in written form.

 

Credit:

The Department´s Executive secretary will give credits on the term which will be shown in SIS under these conditions:

-  the completion of all lectures;

- the completion of all practical classes (as the upside) encompassing possible verification of the theoretical knowledge during the practical classes.

 

Final examination:

Assigned credit is necessary. The exam´ s term will be shown in SIS after the completion of all lectures. Only the guarantee of the subject can decide about the terms except for the term´s period (pre-terms). These pre-terms will be realized after the completion of all lessons, and students will be allowed to sign to these pre-terms after the end of their practical classes. 

Students are allowed to sign to the exam only by using SIS. Students can cancel their final exam´s participation only by using SIS, and at the latest 24 hours before the exam´s beginning. We will accept the apology due to health reasons only if the student will bring the result of the doctor´s examination and confirmation. 

If the student passes the exam without apology, he will lose the term in SIS. The date will be shown in SIS after the completion of all lectures.

 

The final examination is oral, and it has three parts:

-          two theoretical questions

-          one alcoholic calculation

-          evaluation of the essential forensic medicine´s findings presented on the pictures (showed during all lessons).

 

 

All answers will be solved by Lenka Zátopková, M. D. (Executive secretary) or Vladana Kadeřávková (Department's secretary).

 

 

Syllabus

Last update: MUDr. Lenka Zátopková, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)

Lecturers:

Prof. Petr Hejna, M.D., Ph.D., MBA

Michaela Ublová, M.D., Ph.D.

Lenka Zátopková, M.D., Ph.D.

Štěpánka Kučerová, M.D.

Dalibor Kovařík, M.D.

 

Lectures:

Asphyxia. Carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon dioxide poisoning. Sudden and unexpected death from natural causes in adults. Sudden natural death in childhood. Identification. Hypothermia. Hyperthermia. Electrocution. Forensic radiology and photography. Child abuse.

 

Practical courses:

Forensic medicine. Types of autopsies. The external investigation of an assaulted person. Exhumation. Expert opinion. The signs of death. Changes after death. Death certification protocol. Supravital reaction. Vital reaction. Estimating the time of death.

Blunt force injuries. Sharp force injuries. Post-mortem injuries.

Firearm injuries.

Alcohol – blood levels. Alcoholic beverages. Poisoning by ethanol and methanol. The principle of ALTEST, Widmark test and gas chromatography. Calculation of alcoholemia. Medicolegal aspects of alcoholic intoxication.

Autopsy – demonstration at the autopsy room. Medicolegal terminology and presentation of unusual cases from medicolegal practice.

Motor vehicle collisions.

 

Web application:

Atlas of forensic medicine (www.uslhk.cz) – mostly in the Czech language

Literature

Last update: MUDr. Lenka Zátopková, Ph.D. (02.02.2021)

Compulsory literature:

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