Medicine and Surgery

Definition, purposes, methodologies, medico-legal activities. Overall notion of damage. Criminal law fundamental elements. Legal and civil capacity. Causal relationship. Medico-legal sets of criteria. Medical records and report. The notion of crime. Constituting elements of crime. Art 43 c.p. Crime of battery. Crime of personal injury (very mild, mild, severe, very severe). Vehicular homicide and personal severe and very severe road injuries Judicial inspection of the scene. Time of death and cause of death reporting. Murder. Instigation to commit suicide. Infanticide Forensic thanatology: general principles. Mortuary police regulatory framework. Post-mortem immediate developments. Post-mortem consecutive phenomena. Post-mortem transformative developments. Medico-legal injuries Injuries by mechanical force Injuries by blunt instruments Major traumas Injuries by edged weapons Injuries by firearms Injuries by thermal, electrical force and barotrauma Forensic asphixiology Territorial medical care Family doctors. Medical certifications Right to health and to self-determination. Informed consent. Crime reporting. Failure to provide aid. Involuntary treatment and commitment. Professional confidentiality and classified information. Clinical records. Privacy safeguards. Social security insurance. Inail: workplace injury and illness. INPS and civil disability. INAIL and INPS-related certifications. Indictability and causes for exclusion or limitation. Psychiatric assessment. Deception of the mentally incapable. Natural incapacity. Voluntary termination of pregnancy and unlawful abortion. Damage assessment in civil liability Medical professional liability under civil and criminal statutes. Gelli-Bianco Law. Sexual assault legislation. Sexual abuse and mistreatment of minors. Transsexualism. Beginning-of-life bioethics. Law 40/2004. End-of-life bioethics. Advanced health care directives. Law 219/2017. Organ transplants inter vivos and from diseased donors. Elements of forensic toxicology.

The student must possess solid knowledge of some medical disciplines such as anatomy, surgery, pathological anatomy, and the organization of the Italian legal system (e.g. existence of three levels of judgment and criminal, civil, criminal procedure and civil procedure codes).

di Luca N.M., Feola T., Marinelli E., Ricci S., Bolino G., Busardò F.P., Cecchi R., Ciallella C., Del Rio A., Marsella L.T., Montanari Vergallo G., Rallo G., Rinaldi R., Zaami S. Nuovo compendio di Medicina legale, Edizioni Minerva Medica, Torino, 2021 • Conforti M., Corbellini G., Gazzaniga V., Storie di medicina, Encyclomedia, Milano 2011 Powerpoint file lectures were provided for courses

Beginning of lecture verification via individual signatures on attendance list provided by the secretariat.

Oral examination through questions centered around specific topics of forensic medicine, criminal law, civil law, tanatology, in addition to beginning/end-of-life and criminal code additions thereof. Assessment of medical training at general practitioners’.

Lectures held in Italian in lecture halls indicated by faculty secretariat within the university facilities and/or Umberto I university hospital.