GENERAL MEDICINE 2025/2026
All lectures and practical courses focus on essential forensic topics, including extensive photographic collections of significant forensic findings. Knowledge of these findings is necessary to pass the exam. Presentations of practical case examples are also included.
Lectures – in person:
Asphyxia
Drowning
Electrocution
Traffic accidents
Lectures – online (distance form):
Alcohol – blood levels, alcoholic beverages, ethanol and methanol poisoning
ALTEST, Widmark test, gas chromatography
Calculation of blood alcohol concentration
Medicolegal aspects of alcohol intoxication
Sudden and unexpected natural death in adults
Forensic radiology and photography
Lecturers:
prof. Petr Hejna, M.D., Ph.D., MBA
Lenka Zátopková, M.D., Ph.D.
Michaela Ublová, M.D., Ph.D.
Štěpánka Pohlová Kučerová, M.D., Ph.D.
Dalibor Kovařík, M.D.
Practical courses:
Forensic medicine basics
Types of autopsies
External examination of an assaulted person
Exhumation
Signs of death and postmortem changes
Death certification protocol
Supravital and vital reactions
Estimation of the time of death
Blunt and sharp force injuries, postmortem injuries
Firearm injuries
Autopsy demonstrations
Identification procedures
Hypothermia, hyperthermia (excluding CO poisoning)
Sudden natural death in childhood
Child abuse
Basic medicolegal terminology
Review of essential photographic findings
Presentation of unusual medicolegal cases
Teachers:
prof. Petr Hejna, M.D., Ph.D., MBA
Lenka Zátopková, M.D., Ph.D.
Michaela Ublová, M.D., Ph.D.
Štěpánka Pohlová Kučerová, M.D., Ph.D.
Dalibor Kovařík, M.D.