Course description
This short course provides an understanding of how skeletal remains are positively identified, and how causes and manners of death are ascertained.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
To attend this course it is a pre-requisite that you have either attended the Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology: Osteology module/short course previously or that you have sufficient experience and qualifications to prove that you have a good knowledge of human osteology and of the methods used to identify human bone as well as of victim identification from human skeletal remains.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
What you will learn
On successful completion of the module you will be able to:
- Evaluate the evidence that leads to a positive identification and the role of forensic anthropology in assisting in that identification.
- Compare the role of the forensic pathologist and forensic odontologist
- Assess recent advances in the field and new techniques to help in identification
- Analyse pathological conditions that can be observed on bones and teeth and categorise them
- Differentiate between ante-mortem, peri-mortem and post-mortem trauma
- Evaluate the features most commonly employed to differentiate between sharp, blunt and gunshot trauma
Training Course Content
Core content
- Identification of the deceased
- The role of the forensic pathologist, odontologist and anthropologist in victim identification
- Review of the human skeletal anatomy and biological profile
- Latest techniques to identify bone
- Fire victims and cremated bone
- Dental pathology
- Overview of palaeopathology, infectious lesions, joint disease, metabolic and neoplastic disease
- Ante-mortem vs peri-mortem vs post-mortem trauma
- The use of imaging in forensic anthropology
- Radiocarbon dating, DNA and chemical analysis of bone
- Identifying sharp, blunt and gunshot trauma
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