Forensic Medicine

Vision

To produce the physician who is well informed about medico legal responsibilities, medical ethics and etiquette in practice of medicine.

Mission

To provide the power of observation, a wide range of exact knowledge and the power of deduction and power of constructive imagination to students and physicians.

Goal

To make the student in such a way that he is able to develop the skills of making observations and logical inferences by improving his knowledge in medico legal aspects an integrated manner.

Vision

To produce the physician who is well informed about medico legal responsibilities, medical ethics and etiquette in practice of medicine.

Objectives

Knowledge: At the end of course, student should be able to

Identify the basic medico legal aspects of hospital and general practice.
Describe the medico legal aspects and findings of post-mortem examination in case of death due to common unnatural conditions and poisonings.
Detect occupational and environmental poisoning, prevention and epidemiology of common poisoning and their legal aspects pertaining to workmen’s compensation act.
Describe the general principles of analytical toxicology.
To know the general medico legal protocols.

Skills: At the end of course, the students shall be able to

To make observations and logical inferences.
To diagnose and treat common emergencies in poisoning.
To make observations and interpret finding in post-mortem examination.
To observe the principles of medical ethics in the practice of medical profession.

Integration: Department shall provide an integrated approach toward allied disciplines like pathology, radiology and forensic sciences