10 ECTS credits
300 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 6022000ENR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester
1st and 2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Pass/Non pass
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy
Department
Supporting clinical sciences
Educational team
Dirk Van Varenbergh (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
270 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

  • Clinical autobiopsy and basic histopathology  

  • Crime scene investigation and external autopsy  

  • Thanatology 

  • Knowledge on the early signs of death 

  • Knowledge on the later sings of death and the decomposition phenomenon  

  • Knowledge on thanato-chemistry  

  • Isolate samples for toxicology and DNA 

  • Medico-legal medical examination 

  • Investigation of the suspects  

  • ‘Hits and wounds’ 

  • Intrafamilial violence 

  • ‘Forced admission’ 

  • Internal (medico-legal) autopsy 

  • Basic knowledge on general pathology (macroscopy and microscopy) 

  • Autopsy of special medico-legal entities: 

  • Homicide 

  • Suicide  

  • Suspicious decease 

  • Sudden decease 

  • Body in the water 

  • Body in state of decomposition 

  • Burnt body 

  • Traffic accidents 

  • Autopsy during transplantation 

  • Examination of the body, with or without help of SAS set  

  • Reconstitution 

  • Determining the nature of biological traces (blood, semen, saliva…) 

 The ASO acquires knowledge on the following topics: 

  • Judicial aspects of criminal law and expert research 

  • Methodology and ‘game rules’ of expert research 

  • Crime scene management 

  • Criminalist techniques 

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Geselecteerde wetenschappelijke artikels
Additional info

WORKING METHODS 

  • Sessions for technical skills 

  • Bedside teaching 

  • Mortuary teaching 

Learning Outcomes

skills

OLR 2: Has acquired the skills, inherent to the specialism, and applies these correctly (M).  

OLR 17: Keeps further developing and improving own skills (M).  

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Portfolio with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: portfolio met functioneringsgesprekken en evaluatiegesprek aan het einde van het niveau expert (100%)

Additional info regarding evaluation

Portfolio with performance interviews and assessment interview at the end, level expert (100%). 

PASS/FAIL 

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Specialist Medicine: Forensic Medicine (only offered in Dutch)