UMH - ASSESSMENT OF BODILY INJURY AND INCAPACITY TO WORK

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ASSESSMENT OF BODILY INJURY AND INCAPACITY TO WORK

Course

Code: 624

Degree: Master's in Clinical and Surgical Research

Faculty of Medicine

Year: Year 1 of Master's in Clinical and Surgical Research

Semester: Spring

Type: Elective

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 4.5

Lecture: 4.5

Laboratory: 0

Hours: 112.5

Directed: 45

Shared: 22.5

Autonomous: 45

Subject matter: Research in Legal, Forensic and Occupational Medicine

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

- Medical and legal fundamentals of assessing bodily harm.
- Harm to persons in the area of criminal and civil law.
- Assessment tables for permanent disability.
- Procedures for recognizing degrees of disability.
- Assessment of the inability to work in the framework of social security.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
CARDONA LLORENS, ANTONIO FRANCISCO J.	■	■	■
MARHUENDA AMOROS, DOLORES		■	■
PRIETO CASTELLO, MARIA JOSE		■	■
JIMENEZ MORENO, MARIA SUSANA		■	■

Professional interest

THAT THE PUPIL ACQUIRES CONCRETE KNOWLEDGE ON THE MEDICAL - LEGAL EVALUATION OF THE DAMAGE TO THE PERSONS AND THAT IT KNOWS THE DIFFERENT METHODOLOGICAL ESSENTIALS AND SCALES OF APPLICATION AS THE AMBIENCE IN WHICH THE MEDICAL - LEGAL SKILL DEVELOPS

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Teamwork.
Know how to apply acquired knowledge and have the ability to resolve problems in new environments within broader contexts related with research in health sciences.
Be capable of integrating knowledge and handling complexity when forming judgments from information that, being limited, includes reflections about social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of your knowledge and judgments.
Know how to communicate conclusions and the reasons that sustain them, to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear manner.
Possess learning skills that permit continuing studying autonomously.

Specific competencies

Understand medical-legal fundamentals in the assessment of personal injury and injury to people in the field of criminal, civil, and occupational law, and social security.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

To know the damage concept in Legal Medicine
To know the classification of the injuries as the Penal code and the criteria on which it is based
To study the possible causes and concausas of the injuries
To describe the juridical beginning on which the repair of the bodily harm is based
To apply the scale for the evaluation of the damages to the persons in traffic accidents and know the special problems that have to be considered in the same one
To realize an evaluation of the professional damage
To apply the stage of evaluation of permanent impairment and of dependency
To realize reports of evaluation of the bodily harm

Teaching units

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Alonso Santos, Javier. "Criterios de Valoración del Daño Corporal. Situación Actual.".
Pérez Pineda, Blanca. Gracía Blazquez, Manuel. "Manual Médico Legal de la Incapacidad Permanente de los Funcionarios Civiles y Militares.".

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
Learning agreement: Develop active learning through an agreement between the teacher and the student containing commitments for what will be learned, how monitoring will take place for that learning, the set period of time, and the evaluation criteria.
Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.

Grading

Checking test. Attendance at classes with a maximum of 20% of absences

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General competencies

Specific competencies

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

Lecture topics

Teaching units

Course contents

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Links

Software

Methodology

Grading