General and systematic study of the contribution of medicolegal expertise in the provision of opinions and certificates, and of testimony before the courts, by examination of the various expertise situations (thanatology, medicolegal traumatology, death by poisoning and toxicology, sexual abuse, etc.) and methods (medicolegal and criminalistic examinations). Fundamentals and teleology of research and analysis of biological indices.
Initiation into the expectations and the limits of medicolegal expertise in the historical perspective of the evolution of the medical science and criminalistics.
Understanding of the place of the expert.
The concepts of scientific "certainty" and of scientific doubt in the search for judicial truth.
Criteria for recognizing involvement by third parties in a crime.
Recognizing the medicolegal determinants in the profile of perpetrator of a crime and in the reconstitution of the scene of the crime.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
- Historical Survey of Forensic Medicine
- Thanatology
- Death Notice
- Causes of undetermined, Suspicious and Violent Death Natural Deaths, Death by Asphyxia, Traumatic Lesions
- Medicolegal Traumatology
- The Physical Agents
- Road Accidents
- Evaluation of Sequelae
- Poisoning.
- Drug Addiction
- Sexual Battery
- Examination of the Crime Scene
- Biological Indices Expertise
- Role of Criminal Investigations
