Course: Forensic Medicine

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Course title Forensic Medicine
Course code SLP/VA011
Organizational form of instruction Exercise + Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Hamerlik Lukáš, MUDr.
  • Halouzka Vladimír, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Dobiáš Martin, MUDr. Ph.D.
  • Vrtěl Radek, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Langerová Petra, JUDr. Ph.D.
  • Ondra Peter, doc. RNDr. CSc.
  • Spurná Jana, RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Králíková Veronika, MUDr.
  • Gavronová Adriana, MUDr.
  • Svrchokryl Václav, MUDr.
  • Maier Vítězslav, doc. RNDr. Ph.D.
  • Olecká Ivana, PhDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Law and Medical Ethics. Medical Malpractice. Sudden Death. Murder, Suicide or Accident. Identification, Transportation et Firearms injuries. General Aspects of Poisoning. Drug of Dependence and Abuse.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Observation, Demonstration, Projection (static, dynamic)
Learning outcomes
The students are to be able ro perform the examination of the dead person and get acquinted with the problems of violent and sudden death, to know significant judical code and administrative routine; to examine samples of blood and body fluid; to define the level of alcohol; to take material for serological and toxicological examination, to know how to proceed in accordance with the law at compensation of following pains and aggravation of social assertion.
On the completion of the subject the student is well versed in the field, can understand its significance of its interdisciplinary cooperation with other fields and its unsustability in medical law problems.
Prerequisites
Not specified.
IN1/VA022 and IN0/VAA11 and CH0/VAB11 and PAT/VAB11 and PFY/VAB11 and CJA/VAB43 and FAR/VAB11 and PSY/VAB13 and IN2/VAB22

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam, Didactic Test

100% attendance at excercises, lectures
Recommended literature
  • Knight, B. (1997). Simpson´s Forensic Medicine. CRC Press.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Study plan (Version): General Medicine (2019) Category: Medical sciences 4 Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Study plan (Version): General Medicine (2018) Category: Medical sciences 4 Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry Study plan (Version): General Medicine (2021) Category: Medical sciences 4 Recommended year of study:4, Recommended semester: -