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Forensic Medicine

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 14 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 14 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OSK-IGU-T
  • 1 kredit
  • Dentistry
  • Clinical modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

OSP-PA2-T finished

Course headcount limitations

min. 5

Topic

Forensic medicine is an applied science to help the purposes of justice. It involves some basic knowledge for dental doctors: regulation of medical practice, nature and definition of death, important actions in the case of death. There are some special aspects for dental doctors: personal identification, injuries of the mouth, bite marks. Also it is important to learn about the effects of ethanol consumption, drugs, and the most frequent toxins.

Lectures

  • 1. Introduction. Post-mortem investigations - Simon Gábor
  • 2. Healthcare law. Medical Malpractice - Simon Gábor
  • 3. Post-mortem changes - Simon Gábor
  • 4. Vital Signs and reactions - Simon Gábor
  • 5. DNA - Poór Viktor Soma
  • 6. Toxicology - Mayer Mátyás
  • 7. Wounds and Injuries - Simon Gábor
  • 8. Bite Marks - Simon Gábor
  • 9. Head injuries. - Simon Gábor
  • 10. Human identification. - Tóth Dénes
  • 11. Traffic Accidents - Simon Gábor
  • 12. Burns - Simon Gábor
  • 13. Asphyxia - Simon Gábor
  • 14. Electrocution - Simon Gábor

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

0

Literature developed by the Department

0

Notes

0

Recommended literature

Péter Sótonyi, Éva Keller (eds.): Lecture Notes of Forensic Medicine, Semmelweis Publisher, Budapest, 2008.

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Colloquium

Absences accepted according to the exam rules.

Mid-term exams

0

Making up for missed classes

Individual agreement.

Exam topics/questions

1. Health care law.

2. Physicians? responsibility

3. Dental aspects of working ability

4. Sudden and unexpected death.

5. Death and autopsy, post mortem changes.

6. Vital signs.

7. Forensic traumatology.

8. Types of injuries.

9. Special injuries in the dental practice.

10. Injuries of the mouth and the teeth.

11. Injuries of the skull.

12. Bite wounds.

13. Injuries caused by traffic accidents.

14. Dental aspects of identifications.

15. Sex and age determination with dental methods.

16. Dental aspects of paternity investigations.

17. Identification with the help of radiology. Superimposition.

18. Patient's rights.

19. The effects of ethanol, drunkenness.

20. Acut and chronic intoxications and their dental signs.

Examiners

  • Simon Gábor
  • Tóth Dénes

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Kozma Zsolt (Igazságügy)
  • Mayer Mátyás
  • Poór Viktor Soma
  • Simon Gábor
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