FORENZIČKA MEDICINA I MEDICINSKO PRAVO

After completing forensic medicine course, the student of dentistry should achieve the following learning outcomes: 1. Describe body injuries in living people, with a special focus on injuries of the maxillofacial region, diagnose their type and adequately fill in and preserve dental records. 2. Determine the relationship between diseases and injuries; know the difference between complications and consequences; he is familiar with the principles of qualification of injuries. 3. Differ death in origin and significance of performing autopsies; especially in "death in the dental chair". 4. Correctly fulfill Certificate of death. 5. He is familiar with the procedures of identification of the living and the dead persons, especially in massive disasters, with special emphasis on the importance of dental status in identification procedure. 6. He is familiar with the methodology of establishing drunkenness, drug intoxication, doping, poisoning. 7. He is familiar with the importance of DNA technology to establish paternity, identification, biological traces. 8. Cognizant of the importance of traffic accidents and injuries caused by fall from a height. 9. He is familiar with the procedures in cases of family violence and torture, especially with injuries in the maxillofacial region. 10. He obtains the knowledge of medicolegal framework in criminal responsibility related to medical practise, iatrogenic injuries in dentistry, as well as the patients' rights. 11. He is familiar with the procedures of informing the patient and his or her consent to the dental. intervention; familiar with the ethical and criminal aspect in stomatological experiments. 12. He is familiar with importance of homicidal, suicidal and accidental deaths, and how to proceed in every individual case.