Forensic Medicine - FDP067

• Title: Forensic Medicine
• Guaranteed by: Department of Forensic Medicine (15-340)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:15/15, C [HS]
• Capacity: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: deregister from the credit exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled
• Guarantor: prof. MUDr. Petr Hejna, Ph.D.
• Pre-requisite : {Compulsory subjects 3rd year Dentistry (2019->)}
• Incompatibility : FZ10067
• Interchangeability : FA0209064
• In complex pre-requisite: FDP079

Annotation

English

Death, postmortem changes, autopsy, identification, wounds, natural death, ballistics, traffic injuries, bloodstains, forensic alcohol analysis, sudden death, sudden infant death syndrome, violent death, poisons, suffocation, strangulation, drowning, laboratory methods, death certification. Entrance Conditions: No prerequisites. Study Outcomes: 5. Students will gain basic theoretical knowledge of forensic medicine, excluding direct application to real cases. 6. Students will understand essential forensic findings through a large set of professional photographs. 7. Students will participate in autopsy room demonstrations and observe forensic procedures. 8. Students will be able to perform basic mathematical calculations related to forensic alcohol analysis.

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (11.09.2025)

Czech

Smrt, List o prohlídce zemřelého, posmrtné změny, pitva, identifikace, úrazové změny, úmrtí z chorobných příčin, střelná poranění, dopravní úraz, krevní stopy, alkohol, náhlá smrt, násilná smrt, náhlá smrt kojence, intoxikace, dušení, strangulace, utopení, laboratorní metody. Vstupní podmínky: Prerekvizity nejsou dány. Výstupy: 1. Student získá základní teoretické znalosti ze soudního lékařství včetně jejich aplikace na případech z praxe. 2. Student bude seznámen se základními obrazovými soudnělékařskými nálezy prezentovanými zejména na široké škále odborných fotografií. 3. Student absolvuje demonstrační pitvu na pitevním sále, kde mu budou prezentovány základní soudnělékařské nálezy prakticky. 4. Student bude po absolvování výuky schopen provést základní matematické výpočty týkající se forenzní alkohologie.

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (11.09.2025)

Literature

Literature

Compulsory:

·        R. Shepherd: Simpson’s Forensic Medicine, Hodder Arnold, 2003, 208 pages.

 

Web application:

·        Atlas of Forensic Medicine (www.uslhk.cz).

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (11.09.2025)

Requirements to the exam

Only students officially enrolled in the subject of Forensic Medicine in SIS are eligible to participate in lessons.

All lessons will take place in the teaching classroom of the Department of Forensic Medicine, located in the Faculty Hospital Hradec Králové (building 5/1). The final exam is held in the teaching classroom of the Fingerland Institute of Pathology.

The Academic Coordinator of the course is MUDr. Lenka Zátopková, Ph.D. ([e-mail], [phone]). The Department Secretary is Mrs. Vladana Kadeřávková ([e-mail], [phone]).

Practical Classes

Attendance at all practical classes is compulsory. Attendance will be checked at the beginning of each class by the teacher reading the names from the attendance list; each student must confirm their presence orally.

·        Late arrivals will not be accepted.

·        Attendance cannot be granted retroactively.

One absence is allowed without a necessary excuse. If a student misses more practical classes, they must submit a review paper on one of the selected medicolegal topics (5–12 pages, Times New Roman, size 12, double-spaced). The paper must adhere to the standard rules of a scientific review and be submitted to the Academic Coordinator (L. Zátopková, M.D.) at least 10 days before the scheduled exam. After revision, credit will be granted.

In the event of a long-term absence due to health reasons (confirmed by a physician), substitution arrangements will be made individually with the Academic Coordinator.

All questions concerning possible absences or timetable changes must be addressed in written form to the Academic Coordinator (L. Zátopková, M.D.).

Credit

The Academic Coordinator will grant credit under the following conditions:

·        completion of all lectures,

·        completion of all practical classes (with possible verification of theoretical knowledge during practical sessions).

 

Credit will be recorded in SIS after successful completion of the final exam. If needed, credits will also be entered in credit books by prior arrangement with Dr. Zátopková.

Final Examination

The final examination will take the form of an online written test in the Moodle platform, held on the dates announced in SIS, using the faculty laptops available in the teaching classroom of the Fingerland Institute of Pathology.

The test takes place outside regular classes, in the building of the Fingerland Institute of Pathology, on faculty laptops, at the scheduled time (as listed in SIS), under the supervision of an authorised teacher of the Department of Forensic Medicine. Participation requires registration for the exam date in SIS and valid access to Moodle.

If a student requests a specific exam date, this should ideally be communicated to the Academic Coordinator, MUDr., at the beginning of the course. L. Zátopková, who may arrange such a date depending on the Department’s schedule and the capacity of the teaching room at the Fingerland Institute of Pathology.

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (11.09.2025)

Syllabus

All lectures and practical courses focus on essential forensic topics, including extensive photographic collections of significant forensic findings. Knowledge of these findings is necessary to pass the exam. Presentations of practical case examples are also included.

Lectures – in person:

·        Asphyxia

·        Drowning

·        Electrocution

·        Traffic accidents

 

Lectures – online (distance form):

·        Alcohol: blood levels, alcoholic beverages, ethanol and methanol poisoning

·        ALTEST, Widmark test, gas chromatography

·        Calculation of blood alcohol concentration

·        Medicolegal aspects of alcohol intoxication

·        Sudden and unexpected natural death 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.

·        Dalibor Kovařík, M.D.

 

Practical Courses:

 

·        Forensic medicine basics

·        Types of autopsies

·        External examination of an assaulted person

·        Exhumation

·        Signs of death and postmortem changes

·        Death certification protocol

·        Supravital and vital reactions

·        Estimation of the time of death

·        Blunt and sharp force injuries, postmortem injuries

·        Firearm injuries

·        Autopsy demonstrations

·        Identification procedures

·        Hypothermia, hyperthermia (excluding CO poisoning)

·        Sudden natural death in childhood

·        Child abuse

·        Basic medicolegal terminology

·        Review of essential photographic findings

·        Presentation of unusual medicolegal cases

 

Teachers:

·        prof. Petr Hejna, M.D., Ph.D., MBA

·        Lenka Zátopková, M.D., Ph.D.

·        Michaela Ublová, M.D., Ph.D.

·        Dalibor Kovařík, M.D.

Last update: Zátopková Lenka, MUDr., Ph.D. (11.09.2025)