Killings: QATL: Its definition, classification and interpretation in relation to medico legal aspects.
Sexual Assaults: Women protection Bill 2006/ Hudood Ordinance 1979
Laws of Marriage
Workman‟s compensation Act.
2. PERSONAL IDENTITY
Parameters of personal identity.
Various methods of identification.
Identification in decomposed, mutilated bodies, fragmentary and skeletal remains.
Role of teeth in identification and their medico legal importance.
Role of radiology in identification and its medico legal importance.
Role of osteology in identification and its medico legal importance.
Special identification techniques and recent developments DNA Testing, Forensic Photography, Dentistry Radiology, Neutron Activation Analysis, Osteometry, Dactyloscopy, finger prints retinalimaging lip, and ear prints.
3. THANATOLOGY
Definition, classification, diagnosis and medico legal aspects of death.
Concept of brain death and its medico legal aspects.
Medico legal aspects of sudden and unexpected death.
Certification of cause of death as advised by World Health Organization (WHO).
Physico-chemical changes in body after death and factors modifying these changes and relation of these changes with the time scale after death.
Cause-mechanism-mode and manners of death.
Calculation of POST MORTEM INTERVAL (PMI).
4. TRACE EVIDENCE
Definition and classification of trace evidence.
Locard‟s Exchange Principle & its importance.
Steps of collection, preservation and dispatch of specimens to analytical laboratories (Pre-Lab. Work).
Analytical techniques and their medico legal importance (Lab. Work).
Recent advances in analytical techniques.
Interpretation of results of laboratories to assess medicolegal significance.
5. TRAUMATOLOGY
Definition of Injury, wound, hurt.
Classification of injuries.
Mechanics of wound production.
Recognition of cause-appearance in mechanical injuries.
Medico legal aspects of mechanical injuries (cause or weapon/time/manner of infliction)
Patho-physiological effects of the injuries.
Determination of age of Injury.
Determination of nature of injuries whether antemortem / postmortem.
Relationship of trauma to the disease.
Firearm / Blast Injuries
Definition & types of ballistics.
Understand the basics of ballistics (interior, exterior and wound / terminal ballistics).
Study of interior, exterior and wound ballistics.
Effects of firearms on the body and its Medico legal aspects.
Mechanics of blast injuries.
Recognition of blast injuries.
Medico legal aspects of blast injuries
Transportation/Regional Injuries/Police Torture
Motor vehicle ordinance 1965
Classification: Road traffic/Railway traffic/Air crash
Recognition of injuries to the driver or pilot/passengers/pedestrians
D. Traffic accident investigations
E. Special trauma such as police torture and death in custody
· Thermal/Corrosive Burns And Injuries Due To
Electrocution/Lightening/Starvation
Definitions & classification of thermal injuries.
Heat Injuries: various types of burns & their recognition in livingand dead.
Death due to Electrocution and Lightning.
Medico legal aspects of thermal injuries.
6. ASPHYXIA
· General aspects
Anatomy of neck, Physiology/Biochemistry and pathology of fatal asphyxia.
Classification of Asphyxia.
Death due to Drowning: its mechanism, recognition, diagnosis and medico legal aspects. Drowning without inhalation of water.
Mechanical Asphyxia: Suffocation, Hanging, Strangulation, Throttling, Choking, Traumatic Asphyxia, Autoerotic Asphyxia.
Recognition of each type of mechanical asphyxia by observing non - specific and specific findings and medico legal aspects.
Environmental Asphyxia: Recognition by autopsy findings and medico legal aspects.
7. SEXUAL OFFENCES AND RELATED ISSUES
Puberty, Impotence, Sterility, Virginity, Pregnancy and Delivery (examination, certification and medico-legal issues).
Abortion (Therapeutic & Criminal), Methods of inducing criminal abortion, Examination in living & dead and medico legal issues of
new born (still born/dead born/live born, if live born then cause of death, age of new born etc.)
Nfanticide and criminal/non-accidental violence or abuse to newborn, infant or child.
Examination of the victim and assailant of sexual assault (natural/un-natural).
Sexual Perversions: recognition and its medico legal aspects
Methods of collection, preservation and dispatch of specimens in cases of sexual assaults
8. AUTOPSY AND EXHUMATION
· Definition, Types, Principles, Objectives, rules, techniques and
procedure of autopsy
· Autopsy protocol.
· Essentials of autopsy suite & medico legal clinic
· Risks and hazards of autopsy
· Autopsy artifacts and negative autopsy
· Autopsy on decomposed bodies, fragmentary & skeletal remains
· Exhumation procedure, scope & limitations
· Collection, Preservation and Dispatch of Routine Specimens at
Autopsy.
9. FORENSIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION
· Principles, Objectives, Authorization, Consent, Protocol, Pre-
Examination Formalities.
· History of allegation, Occupational history, Purpose of Examination.
· Establishment of personal identity.
· Physical examination of clothes/body.
· Local examination of part.
· Examination of body openings.
· Laboratory Investigations.
· Collection of specimens.
· Formulations of opinion
· Documentation of findings.
· Forensic medical certificate.
FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY
1. GENERAL TOXICOLOGY
· Definitions, classification, routes, absorption, metabolism, excretion
of poisons.
· Diagnosis of poisoning in living & dead (integrated with Emergency)
· Management of a case of poisoning.
· Duties of medico legal officer to deal with a case of poisoning.
· Chronic industrial poisoning, assessment and compensation with
community medicine.
2. SPECIAL TOXICOLOGY
· Specific Poisons
· Corrosives, Irritants, Neurotropic, Asphyxiants, Cardiac, Spinal and
Miscellaneous group.
· Recognition, Diagnosis in living and dead.
· Management and medico legal aspects of poisoning.
LEARNING METHODOLOGY
A. KNOWLEDGE as per learning strategies in section 5.8
B. PRACTICAL SKILLS
· Visits in autopsy rooms/medico-legal clinics /poison control centers.
· Experimental work in biological/analytical/radiological/anatomy/
histopathological laboratories.
C. VISITS
· Visits in autopsy rooms/medico-legal clinics /poison control centers
· Visit of autopsy lab
· History taking / General examination.
· Special examination (Injuries)
· Opening of Corpse
· Internal Scrutiny of Corpse
· Collection of Specimens
· Preliminary reporting/Certification
· Final Opinion
· Design of medico legal clinic Lab.
· Instrument Orientation
· Scrutiny of Police Papers
· History taking and General examination.
· Special examination (Injuries)
· Collection of Specimens
· Investigations
· Reference to Consultant
· Preliminary reporting/Certification
· Final Opinion
For proper orientation and practical demonstration, visits are also
suggested to:
· Court.
· Forensic science laboratory.
· Psychiatric unit or asylum.
· Site during conduction of exhumation.
D. DEMONSTRATION AND SPOTTING WORK IN BIOLOGICAL/
ANALYTICAL/RADIOLOGICAL/ANATOMY LAB
Medico-legal significance of:
· Examination of Blood
· Examination of Seminal Stain
· Examination of Hair
· Examination of Stomach Contents
· Examination of Metallic Poisons
· Examination of Volatile Poisons
· Examination of Organic Poisons
· Special Techniques
· Examination of X-Rays
· Examination of Bones