Education
Course program in Forensic medicine for students in Dental medicine 5-th year
Schedule for sesson exam in Forensic Medicine for students in Dental Medicine V-th year
Information for the exam in Forensic Medicine
Medicine
- Programme in Forensic Medicine and Deontology for students “Medicine” 2021/2022 and 2022/2023
- Programme in Forensic Medicine and Deontology for students “Medicine” 2020/2021
- Course programme in Forensic medicine
- Exercises in Forensic medicine
- Synopsys of forensic medicine examination
Dental medicine
- Course program for practical exercises in Forensic Medicine
- Course program in Forensic Medicine for students in Dental medicine 5-th year
- Course programme in Forensic medicine for students in Dental medicine 2023-2024
- Program for practical exercises in Forensic medicine 2023-2024
- Synopsys of forensic medicine examination
Educational Programs for general medicine students and for dental medicine students have been accepted with Department’s Protocol Numbers 6/2019 and 1/2020
Academic Standard Protocol has been accepted with Department’s Protocol Number 3/2017
Forensic medicine is a branch of medicine, which uses the knowledge and the principles of medical sciences to help the police, the court and the prosecutory in the process of investigating of criminal and civil cases.
The aim of the course Forensic Medicine is to develop capability and skills necessary in graduating medical students and students from the specialty dental medicine, for medicolegal cases in their career practice.The main objective is to gain knowledge and practical skills necessary for participation in the functioning of courts. In its methodological aspect Forensic Medicine uses routine clinical methods of research and training known from other fields of Medicine. Some of the methods are adjusted to the nature and specific characteristics of Forensic Medicine and others are innovative methods described in forensic literature. The course includes lectures and practicals by specific topics.
Academic Staff
Associate Professor Dr. Pavel Timonov, M.D., Ph.D.– Head of the department
Associate Professor Dr. Svetlozar Spasov,M.D., Ph.D
Assistant Professor Dr. Marin Baltov, M.D., Ph.D.
Chef Assist. Prof. Ivan Tsranchev, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor Dr. Kristina Hadzhieva, M.D. Responsible for ” Quality and accreditation”
Assistant Professor Dr. Stela Yancheva, M.D
Assistant Professor Dr. Plamena Dineva, M.D.
Research
Basics of legal proceedings in Forensic Medicine. Forensic traumatology. Basics of Forensic Medical Expert Examination of living persons. Forensic Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Expert Examination of simulated diseases and self-injuries. Expert Examination in case of disputable paternity and/or maternity. Forensic Toxicology. Expert Examination of written data. Expert Examination of trace evidence. Medical Ethics and Deontology.
Textbooks
Forensic Pathology- Lecture Notes and MCQ’S. LaxBook 2014. Pavel Timonov, M.D., Ph.D.
Publications
The members of the academic staff have many international publications, covering different fields in Forensic medicine in international journals indexed in world databases, including Google Scholar, CrossRef, ScienceDirect, Scopus
Monographs
Dissertations