FORENSIC MEDICINE
Forensic medicine is the application of medical and paramedical scientific knowledge to certain branches of law, both civil and criminal.
Syllabus includes
- Procedure of giving medical evidence with reference to Indian evidence act.
- Methods of Identification of living and dead body.
- Death - Medico legal aspects, certification of death.
- Medico - legal autopsy.
- Violent asphyxial deaths - hanging, strangulation, suffocation and drowning.
- Sexual offences.
- Legal procedure in criminal courts and their powers oath, medical evidence, medical certificate, dying declaration.
- Rules of giving evidence, professional secrecy.
- Post mortem examinations.
TOXICOLOGY is the study of how natural or man-made poisons cause undesirable effects on living organisms. Subject includes
- General considerations of poisoning and classification
- Actions of poison
- Diagnosis of poisoning. Treatment of poisoning in General.
- Poisons: - a) Corrosives b) Non-metallic poisons
- Food poisoning.
