Knowledge and understanding. At the end of the course the student must have acquired the basic knowledge of forensic medicine. The student must be able to know, understand and discuss the main issues of forensic medicine, from the legal qualification held by the health professional in the exercise of his functions to the profiles of responsibility that derive from his own conduct. The student must be able to fluently process the obligations of healthcare professionals in compliance with the regulatory provisions, the codes and deontological provisions.
Applied knowledge and understanding. At the end of the course the student must be able to apply the acquired knowledge to evaluate the responsibility profiles of the healthcare professional in the various areas of law, to apply the precepts in the provision of care, in the protection of the right to health, also through the knowledge of error prevention strategies in healthcare.
Judgment autonomy. The student must be able to conduct a critical evaluation of the knowledge acquired, of his own limits and understand the essential nature of continuous updating.
Communication skills. The student must be able to intervene in a discussion on forensic medicine issues by fluently exposing the concepts acquired. The student must be able to contribute his/her knowledge to the discussion and resolution of practical problems in the field of forensic medicine.
Ability to learn. The student must be able to translate the notions learned in the classroom into daily clinical practice through the application of elements of law in taking charge of patients and in the management of health problems.

General knowledge of civil and criminal law facilitates following the course, but they are not indispensable as the basics relating to the topic being treated are provided during the course.

1. The reform of the healthcare workers
2. elements of deontology
3. the legal qualifications of the healthcare workers
4. elements of criminal law
5. disclosure obligations with the Judicial Authority
6. Professional secrecy and the right to privacy
7. Law 219/2017
8. Limitations on ability to perform
9.Medical records
10. healthcare workers liability and the law 24/2017
11. safety of care and elements of clinical risk management
12. the employee’s social security protection

Power point slides
Scientific papers
C. Puccini. Elementi di Medicina Legale.
C. Buccelli, GA Norelli, V. Fineschi. Medicina Legale e delle Assicurazioni.
At present, there is no provision for the availability of differentiated teaching material for groups of students

1. The reform of the health professions: the classification of the health professions, from the job description to the professional profiles, autonomy and responsibility of the health professionals (limit criteria and guide criteria), the abusive exercise of the profession
2. elements of deontology: definition of deontology, the deontological code of the technician of prevention in the environment and in the workplace
3. the legal qualifications of the healthcare professional: the operator of a service of public necessity, the person in charge of a public service and the public official.
4. Elements of criminal law: the classification of crimes, the rules of causality, beatings, crimes against individual safety
5. disclosure obligations with the Judicial Authority: the medical report, the report
6. Professional secrecy and the right to privacy: art. 622 of the Criminal Code, the just causes for disclosure of professional secrecy, the transmission of professional secrecy, official secrecy
7. Law 219/2017: information and consent to healthcare services, consent and minors, consent and inability to act, review of jurisprudence on the subject of informed consent, refusal to healthcare services, shared planning of care
8. limitations on the ability to act: disqualification, disqualification, support administration, imputability, ability to stand trial
9. health documentation: the certificate, the medical record, the false ideology, the false material, the false public document
10. the liability of the healthcare professional: law 189/2012, law 24/2017, defensive medicine, the crisis in the insurance market, criminal, civil, deontological and administrative liability, the insurance model and self-retention of health risk, gross negligence, guidelines and best practices
11. safety of care and elements of clinical risk management: the Swiss cheese model, incident reporting, error nomenclature, error analysis tools
12. the employee’s social security protection: INAIL, accident at work, occupational diseases, diseases related to exposure to asbestos in the workplace

The teaching methods consist of frontal lessons with presentation via power point files. The lessons will be structured to actively involve students in the covered topics. The teacher will encourage students to ask questions on the topics covered before, after but also during the lesson. For students interested in the topics of medical records and medical liability there is the possibility to attend and take part to the activities of the legal medicine department.

Learning will be verified through an oral exam.
The oral exam will last approximately 10-15 minutes and will start from a topic and then move on to topics related to it. Clarity in exposition, reasoning ability, precision in terminology will be evaluated. The vote will be expressed in thirtieths.
The evaluation grid adopted is the following:
- Excellent (30 - 30 cum laude): excellent knowledge of the topics, excellent language skills, excellent analytical skills; brilliant application of theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Very good (27 - 29): good knowledge of the subjects, remarkable language proficiency,
good analytical skills; correct application of theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Good (24-26): good knowledge of the main topics, good command of the language; good ability to apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Satisfactory (21-23): partial mastery of the main teaching topics, while possessing the fundamental knowledge; satisfactory command of language and sufficient ability to apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Sufficient (18-20): minimal knowledge of the main teaching topics and technical language, limited ability to adequately apply theoretical knowledge to concrete cases.
- Insufficient: lack of acceptable knowledge of the contents of the different topics of the program.

This teaching explores topics closely related to one or more objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development of the United Nations