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Forensic
Medicine
4)SYLLABUS OF FORENSCIC MEDICINE
i)THEORY
SI. No. Name of the unitNo. hourstheory practcals
1.Introduction
to legal procedure at an inquest, criminal courts and their 4 --
powersand
procedures, examinaion of a medical witness in the court, medical evidence.
Types of eitnes. Conduct and duties of doctor inthe witness box, procedures of examination of the bodyh at
the scene of crime, criminal trial.
2.Medical
law and Ethics-functions of medical councils, code 4 ---
medical
ethics,infamous conduct, rigbhts
and duties of medical practitioners, physician’s respobsibility in criminal
matters, professional negligence, vicarious liability, Medical records,
products liability, medical indemnity., Insurance ethanasia, consent in
Medical practice, medical experimentation. Maslingering. Consumer protection
Act & Consumer courts.
3.
Identificationn of the living and the dead25
3.Medicolegal
Autopsy. Rules for autopsies, autopsy of a ddad body of decompsed and
multilated bodies, preservatin of viscera for chemicalanalysis, akeletal remains; Exhumaion
4.Death
and postmortem changes – Medicolegal24
Aspects
of death, modes of death, cases of death, Negative autopsy, sudden death, sign
of death and chnges following death with special reference to time since
death.
6.
Mechnical Injuries—mechanism of would production, Details 56
study
of wounds, Medicolegal aspects in relation to accident, suicide and Homicide,
TRAFFIC accidents, regional injuries, examination of injured person.
15.
Artefacts and their medicolegal importance1---
16.Poisons-Medicolegal aspects classification42
Routes
of administrations, mode of action and disposal in the body, diagnosis of
poisoning in the living and dead, duties of doctor in poisoning cases in
general.
17.
Detailed study of poisons commonly used in India--20
