O ensino da Medicina Legal na formação profissional da carreira jurídica

• Autor(a) principal: Prestes Junior, Luiz Carlos Leal
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/8564
• topic: Curriculum legal; Medicine and Law; Forensic teaching; Currículo jurídico; Medicina e Direito; Ensino jurídico; Direito Estudo e ensino (Superior) Currículos; Medicina legal Estudo e ensino (Superior); CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINA::MEDICINA LEGAL E DEONTOLOGIA

The introduction of legal medicine teaching in the curricula of Law dates back a long time and had its proposal reported by Rui Barbosa and approved at the House of Representatives, after the Brazilian government determined the creation of the Cátedra of Forensic Medicine in the Law School from 1891.Throughout the years it was compulsory in Law course showing the importance of the subject in the formation of professionals, mainly those who work in the criminal sphere, but also applicable to all the specialties in the legal area. Regarding the evolution of the forensics science, that introduced in the XXI century new horizons in its implementation within the legal context, I would like to emphasize the importance of the subject in public contests, for those who aim the police career. However, regardless the relevance of the subject, in the academic formation of the Professional in Law, the Education Ministry decided to establish the Legal Medicine as an optional subject in Law courses. This measure has been against the social interests, since society, in search for their rights, demands well trained professionals, with knowledge compatible to the scientific evolution. Teaching legal medicine today is a hard task, since there`s more need in focusing on the teaching activity and providing means so that this teaching can be widely developed in the formation of the legal career. In this paper the technical and pedagogical arguments are shown to keep the subject as compulsory in the undergraduate course of law, and thus aiming at a more complete academic formation, portraying its important application in different areas of Law, as well as its implementation as a compulsory subject in the bar exams of OAB.