How to study forensic medicine for various Medical PG examinations

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.

Forensic medicine divided into two 1.Clinical forensic medicine.2.Forensic pathology:

From this book about 10 mark question will be expecting for NEET PG examination.

Some books you must be noted for studying forensic medicine are given below

• The Essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology ,Author: K.S. Narayan Reddy
• Review of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology including Clinical & Pathological Aspects,Author: Gautam Biswas
• forensic medicine,Author: J MAGENDRAN

SOME IMPORTANT TOPICS FOR MEDICAL PG EXAMINATIONS ARE

Legal Procedure

• Inquest
• Types of courts
• Power of criminal court
• Evidence
• Oath
• Dying Declaration & Dying Deposition
• Witness &types of witness
• 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)&Different sections
• CPC
• Court of law

Human Identification

• Corpus delicti
• Race determination from bone and teeth
• Sex determination from bones(KROGMAN’S TABLE)
• Age estimation method
• Rule of Hase
• 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
• Postmortem hypostasis
• Primary flaccidity
• Algor Mortis
• Rigor Mortis,
• Difference between rigor mortis&cadaveric spasm
• Livor mortis
• Changes In Eye
• Post – Mortem
• Hypostasis
• Putrefaction
• Adipocere
• Mummification
• Decomposition
• Criteria of Death
• Entomology
• Death Certificate
• Brain stem death

Injuries

• Abrasion&classification
• Contusion
• Laceration
• Stab injury
• Incised Wound
• Hesitational and fabricated injuries
• Firearm Wounds
• Thermal 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 perversions&terms
• Signs of virginity

• Dignosis of pregnancy
• Abortion&classification
• Test of live birth

Forensic toxicology

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

Forensic psychiatry

• Delusion&types
• Difference between psychosis and neurosis
• Classification of insanity
• The mental health act 1987