Forensic Medicine

  

Instructor:Xue Aimin, Shen yiwen，Zhang Mingchang, Rao Yulan, Xie Jianhui, Xu Hongmei

Classroom Location:F2601

Days & Hours:Tuesday    8:00-9:40 A.M.

Friday    9:55-11:35 A.M

Office: Building 12, Room 305, Fenglin Campus Eastern Part，Fudan Univ.

Office Phone:54237402

Mobile Phone:13918141342

Office Hours:by appointment

Email:amxue@fudan.edu.cn

Textbook: Forensic Medicine (First edition), Ling Li & Yiping Hou, People’s Medical Publishing House, 2014

  

Supplementary Material:

[1]Forensic Pathology, fourth edition, Zhao Ziqin, 2009, People's Medical Publishing House (China)

[2]Forensic Pathology, second edition, Vincent J. DiMaio & Dominick DiMaio, 2001, CRC Press

  

Course Objectives:

        Forensic legal medicine is an interdisciplinary course between medicine and forensic science, which applies theories and technologies of medicine, biology and other natural sciences to resolve forensic problems related with injuries. It can provide clues to criminal investigation, and provide scientific evidence for justice and civil meditation. The objective of this curriculum is to help student understand basic theory and technique of forensic medicine (e.g. forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, forensic biology), familiar with activities which may involve legal in medical process, and, if necessary, as a physician expert to help the departments concerned to preliminarily resolve the forensic science issues in the judicial proceedings.Thus this curriculum can help students to prevent and reduce medical errors and malpractice, to raise the level of medical technology and medical service quality in future health-care work. The course concentrate on the contents related tightly with clinical medicine. The forms of teaching include cases-based teaching, demonstrations (including autopsy, toxicological analysis and forensic biology), lectures and panel discussions. The score is based on classroom performance and final theory examination.

  

  

Course Schedule:

Week

Date

Day

Class

Course

1


TUE

1、2

Introduction to Forensic Medicine


FRI

3、4

Death and Postmortem Changes (part I)

2


TUE

1、2

Death and Postmortem Changes (part II)


FRI

3、4

Forensic Autopsy (demonstration)

3


TUE

1、2

Mechanical Injury （part I)


FRI

3、4

Mechanical Injury （part II)

4


TUE

1、2

Forensic Pediatrics


FRI

3、4

Mechanical Asphyxia

5


TUE

1、2

Drowning


FRI

3、4

Thermal Injury

6


TUE

1、2

Electrical Injury


FRI

3、4

Ching Ming Festival

7


TUE

1、2

Sudden Unexpected Natural Death (part I)


FRI

3、4

Sudden Unexpected Natural Death (part II)

8


TUE

1、2

Sudden Unexpected Natural Death (part III)


FRI

3、4

Forensic Biology (part I)

9


TUE

1、2

Forensic Biology (part II)


FRI

3、4

Forensic Toxicological Analysis (part I)

10


TUE

1、2

Forensic Toxicological Analysis (part II)


FRI

3、4

Forensic Biology (part III)

11


TUE

1、2

Forensic Toxicological Analysis (part III)


FRI

3、4

Testing

 

  

Recommended Reading:

[1]Knight’s Forensic Pathology, third edition, Pekka Saukko & Bernard Knight, 2004, Arnold

[2]Medicolegal Investigation of Death, W. U. Spitz & R. S. Fisher, 1973 and 1980, Charles C Thomas Publisher

[3]Forensic Medicine, eighth edition, keith Simpson, 1979, Edward Arnold

 

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