Forensic Sciences

This course intends to provide 5th year dental students with the fundamentals of Legal Medicine, Forensic Pathology and Forensic Odontology including the findings of somatic death, physical and chemical injuries, forensic psychiatry, and the techniques of examination of child abuse and sexual assault cases with bite-marks.

Course Content:

The Death, Sudden Death Phenomena, Physical and Chemical Injuries, Forensic Psychiatry, Autopsy, Disaster Victim Identification, Dental Identification, Age estimation from dental sources, Dental report writing and giving evidence, Bite mark identification/

Course Methodology:

1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 4: Case Study 5: Practice

Course Evaluation Methods:

A: Testing, B: Preclinical Lab Study C: Homework-Case study D: Clinical performance form E: OSCE F: Lab study

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes	Program Learning Outcomes	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
By the end of the course, the student will be able to
Estimate the timing of death	PLO 9	1,2,3	A
Classify and explain the sudden death phenomena	PLO 9	1,2,3	A
Understand the cardinal signs of common psychiatric disorders	PLO 9	1,2,3	A
Join to a forensic expertise team working on Disaster Victim Identification cases	PLO 9	1,2,3	A
Assist to dental Identification	PLO 9	1,2,3	A
Classify and describe the methods of age estimation from dental sources	PLO 9	1,2,3	A
Dental report writing and giving evidence	PLO 9	1,2,3	A
Assist to bite mark identification.	PLO 9	1,2,3	A
Be a member of an investigation team working on the missing persons, and solving and prosecuting crimes	PLO 9	1,2,3	A

Course Flow

COURSE CONTENT
Week	Theoretical Topics	Study Materials
1	The Death	Study the sources
2	The Sudden Death Phenomena	Study the sources
3	Physical injuries (gun-shot wounda, stab wounds, crash victims)	Study the sources
4	Forensic Toxicology (poisonings, drug abuse, environmental pollution)	Study the sources
5	Child abuse and Child deaths	Study the sources
6	Autopsy	Study the sources
7	Forensic Psychiatry (basic concepts)	Study the sources
8	Crime Scene Investigation	Study the sources
9	Role and Importance of Forensic Odontology	Study the sources
10	Forensic Dentistry and the Law	Study the sources
11	Evaluation of dental evidence: dental records and profiling	Study the sources
12	Identification of human remains	Study the sources
13	Identification in mass fatalities	Study the sources
14	Use of Bite Marks to Identify Individuals	Study the sources

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES

Course hand-outs

Textbooks

Lecture notes

Soysal Z, Çakalır C (editors) Adli Tıp (Forensic Medicine), İst.Üniv. Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi Yayınları-224. İ:stanbul Üniversitesi Basımevi ve Film Merkezi, İstanbul, 1999.

Çöloğlu AS, İşcan MY. Adli Osteoloji (Forensic Osteology), İstanbul Üniversitesi Adli Tıp Enstitüsü Yayınları-1, Dilek Ofset Matbaacılık, İstanbul, 1998.

Material Sharing

MATERIAL SHARING
Documents	Photocopy shareable
Assignments	Shareable
Exams	Not shareable

Assessment

ASSESSMENT
IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE
Mid-terms	1	50%
Quizzes
Final	1	50%
Total		100%

CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE
Total		100%

Course’s Contribution to Program

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
No	Program Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Program Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
9	Using the teeth and dental records to identify the dead people, victims or assailant.			x

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 28x Total course hours)	14	1	14
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	14	2	28
Homework
Final examination	1	14	14
Total Work Load			56
Total Work Load / 25 (h)			2.24
ECTS Credit of the Course			2

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