Syllabus
All lectures and practical courses are focused on essential forensic topics, including the presentations of huge photo collections of important forensic findings. The knowledge of these findings is necessary for exam passing. Also, the presentation of the cases from practice completes all the lessons.
Lectures – in the full time form:
Asphyxia. Drowning. Electrocution. Motor vehicle collisions.
Lectures – in the distance form (online):
Alcohol – blood levels. Alcoholic beverages. Poisoning by ethanol and methanol. The principle of ALTEST, Widmark test and gas chromatography. Calculation of alcoholemia. Medicolegal aspects of alcoholic intoxication.
Sudden and unexpected death from natural causes in adults.
Forensic radiology and photography.
Lecturers: prof. Petr Hejna, M.D., Ph.D., MBA
Lenka Zátopková, M.D., Ph.D.
Michaela Ublová, M.D., Ph.D.
Štěpánka Kučerová, M.D., Bc., Ph.D.
Dalibor Kovařík, M.D.
Practical courses:
Forensic medicine. Types of autopsies. The external investigation of an assaulted person. Exhumation. The signs of death. Changes after death. Death certification protocol. Supravital reaction. Vital reaction. Estimating the time of death.
Blunt force injuries. Sharp force injuries. Post-mortem injuries.
Firearm injuries.
Autopsy – demonstration at the autopsy room.
Identification. Hypothermia. Hyperthermia except carbon monoxide poisoning. Sudden natural death in childhood. Child abuse.
Basic medicolegal terminology and recapitulation of the essential findings on the photos. Presentation of the unusual cases from medicolegal practice.
Teachers: prof. Petr Hejna, M.D., Ph.D., MBA
Lenka Zátopková, M.D., Ph.D.
Michaela Ublová, M.D., Ph.D.
Štěpánka Kučerová, M.D., Bc., Ph.D.
Dalibor Kovařík, M.D.
Michaela Valdová, M.D.
Annotation
Annotation: Death, changes after death, autopsy, identification, wounds, natural death, ballistics, traffic injury, blood prints, forensic alcohology, sudden death, sudden infant death syndrome, violent death, poisons, suffocation, strangulation, drowning, laboratory methods, Death certification. Entrance conditions: No pre-requisite. Study outputs:
1. Student gets basic theoretical knowledge of forensic medicine except for applying to the cases from practice.
2. Student will understand the essential forensic medicine findings in the big group of professional photos.
3. Student will participate in the autopsy room demonstration showing the forensic results.
4. Student will be able to provide the crucial mathematics calculation concerns on forensic alcohology.