FORENSIC MEDICINE

Forensic medicine is a branch of medical science which deals with the application of medical knowledge to help or aid in the administration of justice.Forensic- originates from the Greek which means open forum Other names Forensic medicine are legal medicine or state medicine. It is divided into two 1.Clinical forensic medicine.2.Forensic pathology:   The Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology,BY K.S. Narayan Reddy.Review of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology including Clinical & Pathological Aspects BY  Gautam Biswas.Forensic medicine BY J MAGENDRAN

Important topics are Legal Procedure

• Inquest
• Types of courts
• Power of criminal court
• Evidence
• Oath
• Dying Declaration & Dying Deposition
• Witness &types
• Conduct money, Subpoena- definition
• Medical negligence

  Medical Law and Ethics

• MCI
• Professional Misconduct or Infamous Conduct
• Privileged Communication
• Consent
• Res Ipsa Loquitur
• Euthanasia
• Health-Related Declarations of World Medical Council
• Indian Penal Code (IPC)

Human Identification

• Race determination from bone and teeth
• Sex determination from bones
• Age estimation method
• Techniques
• Rugoscopy
• Hair
• Dactylography
• Teeth
• Poroscopy
• Anthropometry

Autopsy

• Techniques of organ dissection
• Types of Autopsy
• Embalming
• Preservation of Viscera in Poisoning Artefact
• Exhumation

Thanatology

• Suspended Animation Signs of Death
• Algor Mortis
• Rigor Mortis,
• Livor mortis
• Changes In Eye Post - Mortem
• Hypostasis
• Putrefaction
• Adipocere
• Mummification Decomposition
• Criteria of Death Entomology
• Death Certificate Brain stem death

Injuries

• Abrasion&Contusion Laceration
• Stab injury
• Incised Wound
• Hesitational and fabricated injuries Firearm Wounds
• Thermal (Cold and Hot Injuries) Range of Firearms
• Atypical bullets
• Bomb Explosion Injuries
• Skull fracture

Burn Injuries

• Ante-mortem & Post mortem Burn
• Post Mortem findings in hanging and strangulation
• Various methods of strangulation
• Types and postmortem appearance of drowning
• Hyoid fracture
• Burn Classification
• Electrocution
• Lightening Injury

Sexual jurisprudence

• Rape&associated legal sections
• Various sexual terms
• Tests of live birth

Forensic toxicology

• Legal duties of a doctor in poisoning
• Diagonosing poisoning
• Metallic poisons
• Cardiac poisons
• Delirients
• Insecticide
• Snake bite
• Plant irritants