Review article
Fifty Years of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminalistics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Rijeka
Blaženka Grahovac
; Zavod za sudsku medicinu i kriminalistiku, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Anja Petaros
; Zavod za sudsku medicinu i kriminalistiku, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Ivan Šoša
; Zavod za sudsku medicinu i kriminalistiku, Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, Rijeka
Abstract
On the first day of February 2016, the Department of Forensic Medicine and Criminalistics, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka celebrated its 50th birthday. At fifty years of activity, the Department evolved and progressed in both professional and scientific senses, confronting the many professional challenges. Activities of the Institute include teaching as well as many professional and scientific obligations. Department’s teachers are included in mandatory and elective programs of training medical and dental medicine students and they cover the classes in Faculty of Health Studies. Professional activities comprise of the performing forensic autopsies, conducting a medical examiner’s office, expert witnessing, assessing the severity of injuries, performing toxicological and molecular DNA analyses. In performing professional projects, collaboration with the State’s judiciary (i.e. courts, state’s attorney, and the police) or the County’s Office of Public Health is the most crucial. With its scientific activities and the development of new methodological approaches, the Institute seeks to contribute to the advancement of forensic practice in Croatia.
Keywords
autopsy; DNA analysis; forensic anthropology; forensic medicine; toxicology
Hrčak ID:
158487
URI
Publication date:
1.6.2016.
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