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MASTER'S IN ASSESSMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL DISABILITY AND BODILY INJURY. EDITION XIV

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Promoting unit: Professional School of Occupational Healthcare

Field of knowledge: Health Sciences

Courses

Pre-enrollment: 01/06/19 a 29/11/19

Registration: 01/06/19 a 28/11/19

Duration: 21/10/19 a 15/09/20

ECTS credits: 60

Description

Academic goals

Assessing bodily injury is, without a doubt, one of the most relevant subject areas or subspecialties in legal medicine today. To be more specific, it truly started developing in Spain during the mid-1980s at all levels of medical-legal actions:

- On a scientific level, assessing bodily injury is present at all medical-legal congresses and meetings. Its diffusion has led to numerous scientific meetings, papers on assessing bodily injury and, above all, assessing bodily injury to determine civil liability. Faced with scarce Spanish medical-legal literature, today the papers and journals available are varied. Its interest is responsible for the creation of scientific societies, such as the Sociedad Española de Valoración del Daño Corporal (Spanish Society for Assessing Bodily Injury), which is important nationally and formed by university experts in assessing bodily harm. Another society is the Asociación de Medicina y de los Seguros (Association of Medicine and Insurance), just as important nationally, but mixed in nature, due to membership of expert physicians as well as lawyers and insurers alike.

- On a care level (practicing expert), assessing bodily injury underwent a profound change in terms of requesting expert reports for precisely this. Beforehand, attorneys and those responsible for repairing such injuries requested few expert reports, which were then prepared almost exclusively by forensic doctors. This situation has since undergone a complete change -- expert reports are now considered necessary for reaching both amicable agreements between parties and for the administration of justice through legal channels. This has given rise to increased requests; medical experts are sought to provide their knowledge on cases for both amicable settlements of claims as well as verdicts reached in courtrooms. Such development culminated with Law 30/1995, and subsequently with laws 34/2003 and 35/2015, requiring medical reports for motor vehicle traffic accidents, the leading cause of medical and legal problems linked to injuries.
- On a teaching level, with the development of training programs on this subject matter proliferating outside university settings at state institutions (INSALUD, INSS, Instituto Carlos III) for mutual insurers of occupational accidents and diseases and for forensic doctors, and of course university graduate-level programs in the form of continuing education, legal medicine teaching units have been gradually adding such programs at faculties of medicine at various Spanish universities in cities such as Madrid, Valencia, Oviedo, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Reus, and Zaragoza. These programs were initially created for holders of undergraduate degrees and medical specialists to obtain 250-hour long non-official university qualifications, which subsequently transformed into their own master's programs. The educational growth of this subject matter highlights the growing interest by physicians to perform expert tasks, the exponential increase of requests for expert reports, and the ever-growing requirements that medical experts be trained and qualified on the subject matter on which they advise. Within this entire movement, one of the sectors affected most by assessing personal harm has been the insurance industry. Insurance companies have seen the need to hire or collaborate with medical personnel to perform noble tasks: following-up with injured persons, and assessing harm in expert reports on advising about private insurance policies for personal injuries and civil liability insurance policies for personal injuries caused by negligence or risky activities. Training physicians in the insurance industry is essential, and because of this, the fifth additional provision of Law 30/1995, and subsequently laws 34/2003 and 35/2015, require that such physicians be also trained in insurance contract legislation and insurance expertise techniques.

Furthermore, the European Directive of 8 June 2000 on assessing personal injuries expressly indicates that physicians who assess personal injuries must have their training on this matter accredited.

With this program, the UMH offers society an innovative and comprehensive approach to the impact from the loss of health in all areas with legal repercussions given the need to respond to a growing social demand for medical experts dedicated to assessing occupational disability and bodily harm, with the necessary scientific rigor in our area of influence.

Coordinator

Director:

CARDONA LLORENS, ANTONIO FRANCISCO J.

Administrative:

LOPEZ GADEA, MARIA TERESA

Objectives

- Train experts with scientific rigor in jointly assessing occupational disability and bodily harm.
- Comprehensively evaluate the impact from the loss of health in all areas with legal repercussions.
- Update theoretical and practical assessments of occupational disability and bodily harm.
- Respond to an evident social demand.

Curriculum

Educational structure

This program consists of 60 ECTS credits, distributed throughout the following 6 courses:

Fundamentals of Assessing Occupational Disability & Bodily Injury and Insurance Medicine
8 credits (October 4 - November 22, 2019)

Research Methodology
3 credits (November 29 - December 20, 2019)

Medical-Surgical Basis in Assessing Bodily Injury
15 credits (January 10 - February 7, 2020)

Occupational Health
4 credits (February 14 - 28, 2020)

Assessment of Occupational Disability by Specialty
15 credits (March 6 - May 29, 2020)

Final Master's Project
15 credits (Second semester)

Faculty

Name	Coordinator
CARDONA LLORENS, ANTONIO FRANCISCO J.	■
BERNABEU CASAS, ROBERTO CARLOS
GARCIA MANZANARES, MARIA DOLORES
GARCIA NAVARRO, Mª. MAGDALENA
JIMENEZ MORENO, MARIA SUSANA
LLOPIS MARTÍNEZ, CARLOS
MARHUENDA AMOROS, DOLORES
MUR MARIN, JAVIER
PARETS LLORCA, ROSARIO
PRIETO CASTELLO, MARIA JOSE
RIFE FERNANDEZ-RAMOS, JOSÉ AGUSTÍN
ROEL VALDES, JOSE MARIA
SERRANO REINA, ENCARNACION

Access requirements

To be eligible for admission, applicants must possess an official university undergraduate degree.

Student selection criteria for program admission include the following:
- Specialties and/or civil service examinations (oposición).
- Experience in the area of assessment.
- Academic background.
- Publications and communications on the subject matter at congresses.
- Complementary training.
- Personal interview.
- Order of pre-registration.

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