Abstract

CESPEDES HERRERA, FELIPE; CABEZAS G, MIRTHA  and  ILLESCA P., MÓNICA. COMPETENCES IN LEGAL MEDICINE TO RECENTLY GRADUATED DOCTORS: EXPERT OPINIONS. rev.fac.med [online]. 2016, vol.24, n.1, pp.33-45. ISSN 0121-5256.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rmed.2330.

The current scenario in the field of health and law, poses changes which seek for more knowledge in matters concerning legal medicine: the prosecution of medical practice and the exponential increase in claims for malpractice, seeking a deepening of ethics training. In addition, the implementation of the Criminal Procedure Reform requires strengthening the judicial and forensic level, especially when several statutory provisions establish the expert activity is not exclusive to the specialists working in the Legal Medical Service. In order to contribute the training of future doctors in the field of Legal Medicine considering the current legal regulations involved in the area of health, a qualitative research was conducted, exploratory, descriptive, with a non-probabilistic, intentional sample, convenience, made by a medical specialist in Legal, Medicine prior Informed Consent signature. To collect the data an in-depth interview was used to. The analysis and collection of them was conducted simultaneously through the constant comparison method, following a progressive reduction scheme. The scientific rigor of the study was determined by four criteria of rigor: truth value (credibility), applicability (portability), consistency (dependence) and neutral (Confirmability), carried out by researcher's triangulation. At level 1, 9 categories were found: "Death," "autopsy", "injury", "mental health," "sexology", "forensic laboratory", "legal medical documents", "judicial reform" and "generic competition". At Level 2 three important thems were identified "Thanatology requirements in the Curriculum", "Aspects to consider in the Study Plan regarding "damage" (Lesionología) and "practical theoretical ratio of the contents of Legal Medicine". In level 3: qualitative domain emerges: "Disciplinary competences and generic to be considered in the Study Plan regarding contents of the Subject of Legal Medicine". The discipline includes Thanatology, Damage (Lesionología), Forensic Sexology, Physical Evidence. The generic depending on the doctor-patient relationship and professional responsibility. Whereas the purpose of the study is to contribute to the training of future doctors in the field of Legal Medicine by redesigning the program of the subject, through the expert, one can deduce that all of the contents are explicit in the curricular activity. It is also important to point out that the terminology used is similar to that recorded nationally. However, the practical activities of these learnings are not clearly explicit. The results confirm the existence of disciplinary and generic in the field of Legal Medicine for the welfare work of a doctor who serves on an emergency service or primary health care. This leads to continue the line of work in order to consult graduates (as), in relation to their undergraduate training in all aspects forensic considering different areas and fields of work.

Keywords : Legal Medicine; Thanatology; Professional Competence; Medical School.

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