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dc.contributor.authorHassan Khamis, Amar
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-06T08:31:50Z
dc.date.available2022-01-06T08:31:50Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.other304-2016.19
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.mbru.ac.ae/handle/1/690
dc.description.abstractAbstract: Medico-legal tasks are not exclusive to forensic medical experts –any physician may face medico-legal issues in his career. Hence, the practice of medicine requires education in legal issues. In Saudi Arabia, there are 30 universities with medical colleges, but we do not know how they teach undergraduate forensic medicine and medico-legal issues. The aim of this study was to discover undergraduate training courses in forensic medicine in Saudi universities. We conducted a crosssectional study involving all colleges of medicine in Saudi Arabia. A structured, self-administered questionnaire containing 13 items relating to the undergraduate forensic medicine course was distributed. Out of a total of 30 universities, 27 universities responded. Of these 27 universities, 16 (59.26%) teach forensic medicine to undergraduate medical students, and 11 (40.74%) do not teach forensic medicine in their undergraduate curriculum. Of the 27 universities that responded, none has a department of forensic medicine. Eleven universities that do not teach forensic medicine have no forensic medicine unit/division or faculty at all. Forensic medicine belongs to the pathology department in 11 universities, while it belongs to different departments in five universities. There is variation in teaching methods, years where the course is taught and length of the course. Practical and morgue visits take place in 7/16 (43.8%) universities, while 9/16 (56.3%) universities only teach the theoretical aspects of forensic medicine. All 16 universities teach forensic medicine only to medical students and do not teach it to students in other colleges such as dentistry and nursing.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectForensic medicineen_US
dc.subjectMedical educationen_US
dc.subjectUndergraduate medical studenten_US
dc.subjectSaudi Arabiaen_US
dc.titleUndergraduate teaching of forensic medicine in Saudi Arabiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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