Departmental Objectives:

·         At the end of the course in Forensic Medicine, the undergraduate student will be able to:

·         To produce competent, compassionate, reflective and dedicated health care professionals accoding to national goal. Practice medical and medico-legal works as per national goals and objectives.

·         Examine medico-legal cases and prepare reports or certificates in accordance with the law of land.

·         Perform medico-legal postmortem examination and interpret autopsy findings and results of relevant investigations to logically conclude the cause, manner and time since death.

·         Practice medicine ethically with humanly etiquette, discharge duties promptly and execute legal responsibilities of the physician toward his patient, profession, society, state and humanity at large.

·         Prevent and protect himself from medical and legal mishap.

·         Identify and apply relevant legal provisions applicable to the medico-legal and medical practice.

·         Collect, preserve and dispatch specimens in medico-legal case and other concerned materials to the appropriate Government agencies for necessary examination.

·         Diagnose, apply principles of management and understand medico-legal implications of common poisons.

·         Apply general principles of analytical, environmental, occupational and preventive aspects of toxicology.

·         Explain legal provision related to medical and medico-legal practice

List of Competencies to acquire:

·         Perform ethical medical practice and maintain proper doctor-patient relationship.

·         Capable to give deposition in the court of law as a medical expert.

·         Collect, preserve and dispatch the medico-legally important specimen.

·         Prepare, dispatch and store the proper medical records.

·         Perform proper examination of victim/assailant of physical assault and sexual assault.

·         Perform medico-legal examination (impotency, age determination, sex determination, mental fitness, mental state)

·         Perform medico-legal autopsy and interpret the findings.

·         Prepare certificates and medico-legal reports according to the law of the land.

·         Prepare referral or discharge certificate and death certificate properly and authentically as per ICD-10.

·         Supervise and guide the medical team/practitioner regarding the ethical and legal consequence related to medical issues.

·         Handling dead body ethically and morally.

·         Explain legal provision and guide members related to medical and medico-legal practice

·         Record the dying declaration.

Diagnose and declare the death of a person.