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HEALTH LAW
cod. 09278

Academic year 2009/10
3° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Medicina legale (MED/43)
Field
Scienze della prevenzione e dei servizi sanitari
Type of training activity
Characterising
50 hours
of face-to-face activities
2 credits
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Learning objectives

The student is expected to acquire information useful for evaluating his/her professional activity from a normative-juridical and ethical standpoint with specific reference to consequences in a penal, civil and ethical context

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<br />1. Bioethics, Ethics and Law: principles and general concepts. <br />
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2. Healthcare professions in the National Health Service: Orthoptist – Ophthalmology Assistant. <br />
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3. Overview of Criminal Law: the crime; imputability; the status of the healthcare professional before the criminal law; crimes pertinent to healthcare professions, with particular emphasis on “personal injury”. <br />
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4. Overview of civil rights with reference to the capacity to act. <br />
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5. The medical record and certification. <br />
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6. Professional secret and the processing of personal data. <br />
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7. Consent to treatment. <br />
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8. The duty to refer to the Court: <br />
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9. Professional responsibility <br />
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10. Verification of death and transplantation. <br />
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11. Protection of invalidity and disabled rights: overview of social benefits and insurance with regard to visual defects. <br />
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Full programme

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Bibliography

'Le professioni sanitarie (non mediche) - aspetti giuridici, deontologici e medico-legali', Luca Benci, McGraw-Hill, 2002 <br />
Istituzioni di Medicina Legale, Clemente Puccini, Casa Edetrice Ambrosiana, latest edition

Teaching methods

Classroom lectures <br />
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Oral exam on the basis of the exam schedule

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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