Aims

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.

Main themes

General and systematic study of the contribution of medicolegal expertise in the provision of opinionsq and certifcates, 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 examinatins). Fundamentals and teleology of research and analysis of biological indices.

Content and teaching methods

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

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequirements : biology.
Evaluation : oral exam

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