Download MGR MBBS 2nd Year Forensic Medicine Syllabus

Download MGR (The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University) MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) 2nd Year Forensic Medicine Syllabus

FORENSIC MEDICINE

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FORENSIC MEDICINE PRESCRIBED TEACHING HOURS ? 100 Hrs.
(INCLUDING MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND TOXICOLOGY)
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GOAL :
The Broad Goal of teaching undergraduate students the subject of Forensic Medicine and
Toxicology is to :
1. Impart Knowledge about Medical, Legal and Medicolegal responsibilities of a
physician.
2. Create awareness of laws in relation to Medical Practice.
3. Impart knowledge of Medical Ethics and Ettiquette to be followed during Medical
Practice.
4. Create ability to develop observation skills in Medicolegal cases.
5. Develop logical thinking to set enquiries on possible track on Medicolegal issues.
SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES :
(A) KNOWLEDGE
At the end of the course the student shall be :
1. Able to identify and deal with all Medicolegal cases
2. Able to know the procedure of examination of a Medicolegal case and be aware about the
procedure of collection of the requisite evidential materials.
3. Aware about the prevelant law and legal procedures and be able to appear in a court of law
as a Registered Medical Practioner and give evidence in cases of Homicide, Assault,
Sexual offences, Alcoholic intoxication, Drug dependence and other cases requiring
medical opinion
4. Aware about the procedure of preparation of Medicolegal reports.
5. Practice medicine in the society following medical ethics and etiquette as prescribed by
the Indian Medical Council.
(B) SKILL
At the end of the course a student must be :
1. Able to conduct a proper Medicolegal examination, document and report in all
Medicolegal cases.
2. Able to conduct the Medicolegal Autopsy
3. Able to examine, document and preserve evidence in sexual offence cases
4. Able to diagonise and treat cases of poisoning.
5. Able to examine, document and report in cases of drunkenness
6. Able to collect, preserve and dispatch specimens and relevant materials to the concerned
centers in Medicolegal cases.
7. Prepare Medical record and reports
8. Able to properly depose evidence in a court of law.
9. Competent to issue all Medical and Medicolegal certificates.


(C) INTEGRATION

Identification
Anatomy Vertical
Integration
Forensic Osteology
Age Estimation
Radiology and Dentistry Vertical
Integration
OBG, Orthopaedics,
Clincial Forensic Medicine
Vertical Integration
Radiology, EMD
Bio-chemistry,
Vertical Integration &
Toxicology
Pharmocology,
Horizontal Integration
Internal Medicine, EMD
Thanatology Pathology,
Microbiology Horizontal
Integration
TEACHING HOURS ? THEORY

Introduction
History of Forensic Medicine,
08 hours
Ethics, Medical Jurisprudence, legal Proceedure
Identification 07
hours
Thanatology, PM changes, Medicolegal Autopsy, Exhumation
09 hours
Injuries - Mechanical, Thermal, Physical Agents, Radiation, Firearms, RTA
12 hours
and Regional Injuries
Asphyxial deaths
06 hours
Anasthetic and Operative deaths
01 hours
Sexual Jurisprudence - Impotence, Sterility, AI, Virginity,
10 hours
Pregnancy, Delivery, Abortion, MTP act, ART, Sexual offences
Infanticide, Child Abuse
02 hours
Toxicology 12
hours
Psychiatry 05
hours
FSL, Trace Evidence, Artifacts, Blood Stains & body fluids
03 hours
TOTAL 75
Hours


TEACHING HOURS ? PRACTICALS

Estimation of Age by
a. Physical and Dental examination
04 hours
b. Radiological Examination
04 hours
Thanatology
Injuries 04
hours
Asphyxial Deaths
02 hours
Infanticide 01
hours
Sexual Jurisprudenace
04 hours
Toxicology 06
hours
TOTAL 25
hours


TEACHING METHODOLOGY

Legal Procedures, Ethics, Medical Jurisprudence
1
Identification 1,2,3
Thanatology 1,2,3,4
Injuries 1,2,3,4
Asphyxial deaths
1,2
Anaesthetic and Operative Deaths
1
Sexual Jurisprudence
1,2,3
Infanticide 1.2
Toxicology 1,2,3,4
Psychiatry 1,2,3
FSL, Blood stains, Biological fluids
1,4
1 : DIDATIC

LECTURES

2 : STUDENT SEMINARS
3 : SMALL GROUP TEACHING
4 : HANDS ON TRAINING



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SYLLABUS
FORENSIC MEDICINE-INCLUDING MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND TOXICOLOGY
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1. MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

Legal Procedure : Inquests, Subpoena, Conduct money, Procedure of Criminal trial, Record
of evidence, Types of evidence, Medical evidence, Types of witness.
2. MEDICAL ETHICS AND LAW

Laws governing medical profession :
Indian Medical Council and State Medical Council organisations, functions, and powers
Rights and privileges of Registered Medical Practitioner. Infamous Conduct. Professional
Negligence (malpractice)
3. DUTIES OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONER

Doctrine of Resipsa Loquitor, Contributory Negligence, Vicarious responsibility, Consent,
Euthanasia.
4. IDENTIFICATION

Definition and data to establish identity.
Race, Religion, Sex, Age, Stature, complexion and features, external peculiarities,
anthroprometry, dactylography, and poroscopy, Superimposition Technique
Forensic odontology. Medico-legal importance of Age and Sex.
5. THANATOLOGY (DEATH)

Types of death. Modes of death and their patho-physiology, Causes of death,
Classification and medico-legal aspects of natural death
6. POST MORTEM CHANGES

Signs of death. Changes following death and their medico-legal importance
Adipocere, Mummification, Embalming
Estimation of Post mortem Interval (time of death)
Presumption of death and survivorship.


7. MEDICO-LEGAL AUTOPSY

Protocol, Technique, Postmortem report.
Examination of set of bones.
Exhumation.
8. MECHANICAL INJURIES (WOUNDS).

Classification and mechanism of wound production
Abrasions, Contusions, Incised wounds, Chop wounds, Stab wounds and Lacerated wounds and
their medico-legal Importance,
Firearms classification and cartridges.
Firearm wounds by different firearms and their medico-legal importance
Bomb Explosion Wounds.
Regional injuries on the body and Medico-legal importance.
Medico- legal aspects of wounds ? Issue of medico ? legal certificates for legal purposes.
Homicide & types of homicide.
Simple and Grievous injuries ? causes of death from wounds
9. DEATH DUE TO COLD, HEAT, ELECTRICITY AND RADIATION

10. VIOLENT ASPHYXIAL DEATHS

Classification - Hanging, Strangulation by ligature Throttling, Smothering, Gagging, Overlaying,
Burking, Choking, Drowning and Sexual asphyxia
11. ANAESTHETIC AND OPERATIVE DEATHS.

12. IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY

Definition, causes, and medico-legal importance.
Sterilization and Artificial insemination and their medico-legal importance.
13. VIRGINITY, PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY

Definition, diagnosis and medico-legal importance,
Pseudocyesis, Super fecundation, Superfoetation,
Legitimacy, Paternity and their medico-legal importance.


14. ABORTION

Definition, classification, methods of procuring abortion,
Diagnosis and evidences of abortion, medico-legal questions arising in suspected cases of
abortion. Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.
15. INFANTICIDE

Definition, still birth, dead birth and live birth
Signs of live birth and autopsy in suspected case of infanticide
Causes of death and medico-legal importance.
Abandoning of infants, Concealment of birth, Battered baby syndrome, Cot death.
16. SEXUAL OFFENCES

Classification
Rape ? definition, examination of victim and the accused ? Incest,
Unnatural sexual offences, types and their medico-legal importance.
Sexual Perversion ? types and their medico-legal importance ? Indecent assault.
Examination of seminal fluid.
17. TOXICOLOGY

General consideration - Law on poisons, classification of poisons.
Diagnosis of poisoning in the living and dead.
Duties of the Registered medical practitioner in suspected case of poisoning.
General principles of treatment of poisoning
Corrosive poisons, Non-metallic poisons, Insecticides and weed killers, Metallic poison, Organic
irritant poison, someferous poisons, Inebriants, Deliriants, spinal poisons, food poisoning, cardiac
poisons, Asphyxiants, war gases Curare, Conium. Drug dependence and Addiction.
18. FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

Delusion, Hallucination, Illusion, Impulse, Obsession, Delirium, Lucid interval Classification of
unsoundness of mind and medico ? legal aspects.
Restraint of Insane.
19. EXAMINATION OF BLOOD STAINS AND HAIR AND SUSPECTED BIOLOGICAL
AND FIBRES STAINS.

20. ORGANISATION OF FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORY

Locard's principle; Lie detection, Narcoanalysis, Hypnosis.


PRACTICAL SYLLABUS
1. Medicolegal Autopsy
2. Autopsy on a decomposed dead body and mutilated bodies
3. Examination of Skeletal remains
4. Identification ? Radiological, Physical and dental examination
5. Examination of a medical witness in the court
6. Conduct and duties of doctor in the witness box
7. Examination of Photographs and opinion
8. Examination of victims in sexual offence cases
9. Examination of accused in sexual offence cases
10. Foetal examination
11. Infanticide,
12. Preparation and issual of death certificates
13. Examination of specimen of Pathological and Forensic Significance
14. Examination of Weapons
15. Examination of Toxicology specimens, Plants and Seeds
16. Viscera packing
17. Examination of blood stains, hair, seminal stains etc.,


REFERENCE BOOKS

The essentials of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology - Dr. K.S. Narayan Reddy
Principles of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology - Dr. Apurba Nandy
Text book of Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology - Dr. C.K. Parik
Modi's medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology - Dr. C.A. Franklin
Medico Legal Post Mortem in India Published
-
Dr. C.K. Parik
Forensic
Medicine
-
Dr.
Keith
Simpson
Text
Book
of
Forensic
Medicine - Dr.
V.V.
Pillay
Lyons Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology
-
Dr. Dogra
Text Book of Forensic Medicine Toxicology
- Dr.
R.N.
Karmarkar
Principles of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology - Dr. Rajesh Bardale



Theory EXAMINATION
Exam. Category
No. of Questions Marks
1.
Essay 1
x
10
marks
10
2. Brief answers
6 x 4 marks
24
3. Very Short answers
6 x 1 marks
6
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Total 40
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The above pattern is to be implemented from 2018 February Exam session onwards






PRACTICAL EXAMINATION PATTERN
1. Examination of Skeletal Remains
or
Estimation of Age by Radiological Examination
or
Estimation of Age by physical and Dental Examination
= 05 marks
2. Examination of a case of Drunkennes
or
Examination of Injured person and issual of Wound Certificates
= 05 marks
3. Examination of a of Victim / Assailant in case of sexual offence
= 03 marks
4. Examination of Foetus
= 03 marks
5. Issual of Medical Certificate
(Birth/Death/Physical
Fitness
/
Medical
Leave)
=
03
marks
6. Interpretation of Autopsy Findings and opining on cause
of
deaths
and
time
since
death
=
03
marks
7. SPOTTERS (5 NOS)
= 05 marks
a. Forensic Specimen
b. Toxicology : Plant
c. Toxicology : Seed
d. Weapon
e. Photograph
8. OSPE ? 3 Stations
= 03 marks
a. Viscera Packing
b. DNA Sampling
c. Correlation of weapon/object with injury
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30 Marks
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VIVA VOCE EXAMINATION PATTERN


MAX MARKS : 10

STATION MARKS
TOPICS
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE
MEDICAL ETHICS & LAW
EXAMINER 1
2.5
IDENTIFICATION
THANATOLOGY
PM CHANGES, MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY
MECHANICAL INJURIES
THERMAL INJURIES
EXAMINER 2
2.5
DEATHS DUE TO ELECTRICITY, RADIATION
ASPHYXIAL DEATHS
ANAESTHETIC & OPERATIVE DEATHS
IMPOTENCE, STERILITY
VIRGINITY, PREGNANCY, DELIVERY
EXAMINER 3
2.5
ABORTION, MTP ACT, INFANTICIDE
SEXUAL OFFENCES
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
TOXICOLOGY
FSL
EXAMINER 4
2.5
EXAMINATION OF BLOOD, BIOLOGICAL
STAINS, HAIR, FIBRE
INTERNAL ASSESMENTS PATTERN



FIVE INTERNAL ASSESMENT EXAMS MUST BE CONDUCTED DURING
THE ACADEMIC YEARS AS DETAILED UNDER.
SCHEDULED
MARKS TO REACH

UNIT / TOPICS
DURING
UNIVERSITY BY
MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE
MEDICAL ETHICS & LAW
IAE 1
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
IDENTIFICATION
THANATOLOGY, PM CHANGES
MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY
MECHANICAL INJURIES
IAE 2
APRIL
THERMAL INJURIES
MAY
DEATHS DUE TO ELECTRICITY,
RADIATION
ASPHYXIAL DEATHS
ANAESTHETIC &
OPERATIVE DEATHS
IMPOTENCE, STERILITY
IAE 3
JULY
AUGUST
VIRGINITY, PREGNANCY,
DELIVERY
ABORTION, MTP ACT,
INFANTICIDE
SEXUAL OFFENCES
IAE 4
OCTOBER
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
NOVEMBER
TOXICOLOGY

IAE 5
/
DECEMBER
ALL TOPICS
JANUARY
MODEL
EXAM


STUDENTS SHALL MAINTAIN A RECORD / LOG BOOK IN WHICH HE / SHE
RECORDS THE DETAILED PROCEDURES OF THE PRACTICAL EXERCISES
PERFORMED / OBSERVED BY THEM INCLUDING TEN MEDICOLEGAL
AUTOPSIES WITNESSED BY THEM IN THE MORTUARY. THIS RECORD / LOG
BOOK WILL BE CHECKED PERIODICALLY BY THE FACULTY.
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT :






20 MARKS




{THEORY 10 + PRACTICAL 5 + RECORD 5}


CRRI ORIENTATION


EVERY CRRI WILL PARTICIPATE IN A ONE DAY ORIENTATION PROGRAM /
WORKSHOP ORGANISED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC MEDICINE WHERE
HE WILL BE TAUGHT ABOUT
ETHICS & ETIQUETTE IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
CONFIDENTIALITY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
LEGAL ASPECTS OF MEDICAL PRACTICE
FURTHER EVERY CRRI POSTED IN THE CASUALTY UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF
FORENSIC MEDICINE WILL UNDERGO TRAINING ABOUT
IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICOLEGAL CASE
APPROACH TOWARDS A MEDICOLEGAL CASE IN A HOSPITAL SET UP /
DURING CLINICAL PRACTICE
PREPARING & SUBMITTING RELEVANT DOCUMENTS / REPORTS RELATED


TO MEDICOLEGAL CASES
CONFIDENTIALITY OF RECORDS & MAINTAINACE OF CHAIN OF CUSTODY
DIAGNOSIS & MANAGEMENT OF CASES OF POISONING
IDENTIFY & MANAGE CASES RELATED TO SEXUAL OFFENCES
COLLECTION & PRESERVATION OF EVIDENTIAL MATERIALS
CERTIFICATION / DECLARATION OF DEATH
CONDUCTION OF MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY
RECORD:
Record should be followed as recommended by the University

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MUST
DESIRABLE
NICE TO

TOPIC
KNOW
TO KNOW
KNOW
INTRODUCTION & HISTORY OF
1
*
FORENSIC MEDICINE
2 LEGAL PROCEDURE

INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL TERMINOLOGIES
*

INQUEST
*

COURTS OF LAW & THEIR POWERS
*

NHRC & OTHER AGENCIES
*

COURT PROCEEDINGS
*

SUBPOENA OR SUMMONS
*

CONDUCT MONEY
*

WITNESSES
*

RECORDING OF EVIDENCE
*

DYING DECLARATION
*
CONDUCT AND DUTIES OF THE DOCTOR IN THE WITNESS

*
BOX

INVESTIGATION OF THE SCENE OF DEATH
*

PROCEDURE OF CRIMINAL TRIAL
*

WORKMANS COMPENSATION ACT, ESI ACT, ORS
*
3 MEDICAL LAW AND ETHICS
THE INDIAN MEDICAL COUNCIL ACT 1956 ;

*
FUNCTIONS & POWERS OF MEDICAL COUNCILS



OATH OF HIPPOCRATES, DECLARATION OF GENEVA
*

DUTIES OF MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS
*

PROFESSIONAL SECRECY
*

PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION
*

PRIVILEGES AND RIGHTS OF THE PATIENTS
*

INFAMOUS CONDUCT
*

PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE (MALPRAXIS)
*

THE DOCTINE OF RES IPSA LOQUTTUR
*

NOVUS ACTUS INTERVENIENS
*

MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE PREVENTION
*
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA GUIDELINES ON MEDICAL

*
NEGLIGENCE

THERAPEUTIC MISADVENTURE
*

VICARIOUS LIABILITY
*

PRODUCTS LIABILITY
*

MEDICAL INDEMNITY INSURANCE
*

MEDICAL RECORDS (M.R)
*

CONSENT IN MEDICAL PRACTICE
*

EUTHANASIA (MERCY KILLING)
*

RED CROSS EMBLEM
*

CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
*


4 IDENTIFICATION

THE CORPUS DELICTI
*

IDENTIFICATION IN LIVING & DEAD
*

SKELETAL REMAINS EXAMINATION
*
ESTIMATION OF AGE BY PHYSICAL, DENTAL &

*
RADIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION

MEDICOLEGAL IMPORTANCE OF AGE
*

ANTHROPOMETRY
*

DACTYLOGRAPHY
*

SKULL PHOTO SUPERIMPOSITION
*

FORENSIC ODONTOLOGY
*

BITE MARKS
*
5 THANATOLOGY
TYPES, MODE, MOMENT, MANNER & CAUSE OF

*
DEATH

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF CAUSE OF DEATH
*

BRAIN DEATH
*

TISSUE AND ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION
*

SUDDEN DEATH
*

POSTMORTEM CHANGES
*
6 MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY
ETHICS OF MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY & RESPECT

*
TOWARDS CADAVER



PROTOCOL, OBJECTIVES, TECHNIQUE OF AUTOPSY
*

PREPERATION OF AUTOPSY REPORT
*

PSYCHOLOGICAL AUTOPSY
*

VIRTUAL AUTOPSY (VIRTOPSY)
*

ENDOSCOPIC TECHNIQUE OF POSTMORTEM DIAGNOSIS
*

AUTOPSY OF CASES OF AIDS AND OTHER INFECTIONS
*

THE AUTOPSY AND DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE CORPSE
*

NHRC RECOMMENDATION ON AUTOPSY
*
PRESERVATION & DESPATCH OF VISCERA IN CASES OF

*
SUSPECTED POISONING

LABORATORY PROCEDURES
*

AUTOPSY OF DECOMPOSED BODIES
*

EXAMINATION OF MUTILATED BODIES OR FRAGMENTS
*

EXHUMATION
*

SECOND AUTOPSY
*

NEGATIVE AUTOPSY, OBSCURE AUTOPSY
*

EMBALMING
*

ESTIMATION OF POSTMORTEM INTERVAL
*

RADIOACTIVE CARBON
*

PRESUMPTION OF DEATH
*

PRESUMPTION OF SURVIVORSHIP
*


ROLE OF A FORENSIC EXPERT IN A CASE

*
OF MASS DISASTER
7 MECHANICAL INJURIES

CLASSIFICATION OF INJURIES
*

MECHANISM OF WOUND PRODUCTION
*
ABRASIONS, CONTUSIONS, INCISED WOUNDS, CHOP

WOUNDS, STAB WOUNDS AND LACERATED WOUNDS
*
AND THEIR MEDICOLEGAL IMPORTANCE

INJURIES CAUSED BY FIRE ARMS
*

FORENSIC BALLISTICS, BOMB EXPLOSION
*

THERMAL INJURIES
*

INJURIES CAUSED BY PHYSICAL AGENTS
*

WOUND CERTIFICATION
*
REGIONAL & TRANSPORTATION
8
*
INJURIES
9 MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS OF WOUNDS

SIMPLE & GRIEVOUS HURT
*

CAUSES OF DEATH FROM WOUNDS
*

DOWRY DEATHS
*

TORTURE
*

DEATH IN CUSTODY
*
10 STARVATION
*
11 MECHANICAL ASPHYXIA



CLASSIFICATION
*

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF ASPHYXIAL DEATH
*

AUTOPSY FINDINGS IN ASPHYXIAL DEATHS
*

JUDICIAL HANGING
*

DISSECTION OF NECK & HYOID BONE FRACTURES
*

DROWNING
*

DIATOMS
*

SEXUAL ASPHYXIAS
*
12 ANAESTHETIC AND OPERATIVE DEATHS
*
13 IMPOTENCE AND STERILITY
DEFINITION, CAUSES & MEDICOLEGAL

*
IMPORTANCE

STERILISATION
*

ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION
*

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUE (ART)
*

SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD
*

CLONING
*
14 VIRGINITY, PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY

DEFINITION & MEDICOLEGAL IMPORTANCE
*

DIAGNOSIS OF PREGNANCY
*

SIGNS OF DELIVERY IN LIVING & DEAD
*



SUPERFOETATION & SUPERFOECUNDATION
*

LEGITIMACY
*

DISPUTED PATERNITY
*
15 ABORTION

DEFINITION, CLASSIFICATION
*

METHODS OF PROCURING ABORTION
*
DIAGNOSIS & EVIDENCES OF ABORTION IN

*
LIVING & DEAD

THE MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ACT 1971
*
16 INFANT DEATHS

DEFINITION & SIGNS OF LIVE BIRTH
*

VIABILITY
*

STILL BIRTH, DEAD BORN
*
BATTERED BABY SYNDROME OR NON ACCIDENTAL

*
INJURY OF CHILDHOOD

MUNCHAUSEN'S SYNDROME
*

SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME
*

CONCEALMENT OF BIRTH
*

ABANDONMENT
*

FETAL AUTOPSY
*
17 SEXUAL OFFENCES

CLASSIFICATION
*



DEFINITION OF RAPE
*
CLINICAL EXAMINATION OF THE VICTIM &

*
ACCUSED IN CASES OF SEXUAL ASSAULT
EVIDENTIAL MATERIAL COLLECTION IN CASES

*
OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

EXAMINATION OF ACCUSED FOR POTENCY
*
TYPES & MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS OF

*
UNNATURAL SEXUAL OFFENCES
TYPES & MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS OF SEXUAL

*
PERVERSIONS

CERTIFICATION IN CASES OF SEXUAL OFFENCES
*

INDECENT ASSAULT
*
EXAMINATION OF BLOOD STAINS &
18
BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL

SUBSTANCES RESEMBLING BLOOD STAINS
*

BLOOD GROUPS IN TISSUES
*

CHEMICAL EXAMINATION
*

MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION
*

MICROCHEMICAL EXAMINATION
*

SPECTROSCOPIC EXAMINATION
*

SEROLOGICAL EXAMINATION
*

DNA FINGERPRINTING
*
BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES ENCOUNTERED IN FORENSIC

PRACTICE : COLLECTION, PRESERVATION &
*
EXAMINATION

EXAMINATION OF HAIR
*
19 ARTEFACTS
*


20 FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORY

LOCARD'S PRINCIPLE
*

POLYGRAPHY
*

NARCO ANALYSIS
*

BRAIN MAPPING
*
21 FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

WHO CLASSIFICATION PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
*
CLINICAL & MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS OF

*
PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS

LEGAL ASPECTS OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
*

McNAUGHTANS RULE, Sec 84 Ipc & ORS
*

LUCID INTERVAL
*

RESTRAINT OF THE MENTALLY ILL PERSON
*

THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT 1987
*

FEIGNED INSANITY
*
22 TOXICOLOGY

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS
*

THE LAW ON POISONS
*

CLASSIFICATION
*
IDENTIFICATION OF POISONOUS PLANTS, SEEDS &

*
ANNIMALS

DIAGNOSIS OF POISONING IN LIVING & DEAD
*

ANALYTICAL TOXICOLOGY : TLC, HPLC, GC & UVS
*
DUTIES OF A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER IN A CASE OF
*
SUSPECTED POISONING
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TREATMENT OF POISONING
*
PRESERVATION & DESPATCH OF EVIDENTIAL MATERIALS
*
IN CASES OF SUSPECTED POISONING
SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AUTOPSY FINDINGS &
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS IN CASES OF CORROSIVE
*
POISONS
SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AUTOPSY FINDINGS &
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS IN CASES OF METALLIC POISONS
*
SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AUTOPSY FINDINGS &
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS IN CASES OF NON METALLIC
*
POISONS
SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AUTOPSY FINDINGS &
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS IN CASES OF PLANT &
*
ANNIMAL POISONS
SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AUTOPSY FINDINGS &
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS IN CASES OF AGRICULTURAL
*
POISONS
SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AUTOPSY FINDINGS &
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS IN CASES OF POISONS ACTING
*
ON CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AUTOPSY FINDINGS &
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS IN CASES OF POISONS ACTING
*
ON NERVOUS SYSTEM INCLUDING SPINAL CORD
SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AUTOPSY FINDINGS &
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS IN CASES OF INNEBRIANT
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POISONS AND CERTIFICATION OF DRUNKENNESS
SIGNS, SYMPTOMS, TREATMENT, AUTOPSY FINDINGS &
MEDICOLEGAL ASPECTS IN CASES OF POISONS ACTING
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ON RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
FOOD POISONING : BACTERIAL, VIRAL, CHEMICAL &
*
MUSHROOM
DRUG DEPENDANCE
*

DOMESTIC & HOUSEHOLD POISONS
*
THERAPEUTIC DRUGS TOXICITY
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OCCUPATIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY
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