Resumen

ROLDAN RETANA, Jorge Mario  y  SOLANO CALDERON, Leslie. Departamento de Medicina Legal: Organismo de Investigación Judicial. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2001, vol.18, n.1, pp.05-10. ISSN 2215-5287.

The teaching of forensic medicine  is imparted in Costa Rica since the XIXth century having its cradle in Law School and College of Lawyers. Since 1961 it is imparted in the School Medicine of the University of Costa Rica and in this year the Department of the Legal Medicine is created. The forming of this Department is described and which are its functions through its flowchart.