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.