Exam Scheme

Note :-

1. Objective type paper.
2. All questions carry equal marks.
3. There will be Negative Marking.

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Syllabus : Forensic Medicine

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1. Law in Relation to Medical Man.
2. Legal procedure, Inquest
   1. Different types of courts & Powers of different courts,
   2. Medico legal Reports, Dying declaration/ Dying Deposition, Medical Witness.
   3. Professional secrecy / Privileged communication, Professional Negligence / Contributory negligence Warning Notice/ infamous conduct, vicarious Liability & consent.
3. Medico legal autopsy
   1. including Decomposed & mutilated bodies Examination of Skeleton/ Exhumation.
4. Death & Post mortem changes
   1. Modes of death/ sudden Death, Moment of death/ Presumption of Death.
5. Identification of Living & Dead
   1. Determination of Race, Sex, Age & their Medico legal aspects, Including finger prints & DNA Finger Print, Anthropometry, Scars, Tatto marks, Occupational marks, Intersex & Teeth.
6. Examination of Blood Stains, Seminal stains, Hairs & Fibre
   1. Forensic Science Laboratory & Artefacts.
7. Violent Asphyxial Death
   1. Including Hanging, Strangulation, Throttling, Suffocation, Drowning, Traumatic Asphyxia, Cafe coronary.
8. Thermal injuries
   1. Including Burns, Scalds, Cold & Heat, Electricity, Lightening & Radiation.
9. Mechanical Injuries
   1. & their Medico Legal Aspects; including Ante mortem & post mortem injury, Determination of age of injury.
10. Regional Injuries
    1. including skull fracture, Intra cranial Haemorrhages, Cerebral concussion, Counter coupe injury, Spinal injury chest & Abdominal injury.
11. Impotance & Sterility
    1. Artificial Insemination Virginity, Signs of Pregnancy & delivery & their Medico legal Aspect.
12. Sexual offences, Rape
    1. including recent changes in the Law of Rape.
    2. Un-Natural Sexual offences & Various Sexual perversions.
13. Natural & Criminal abortion
    1. MTP Act 1971, PCPNDT Act, Duty of Doctor in criminal abortion, Infanticide – Including Live born, Dead born, Still born & Related Tests.
14. Forensic Psychiatry:
    1. Delirium, Delusion Hallucination, Impulse, Psychosis & Neurosis, I.Q., Mental Health Act 1987, Real & Feigned Mental illness, Restraint of the Mentally ill person, Civil & Criminal Responsibility of Insane.
15. Forensic Toxicology:
    1. General Considerations, Sale of Poison with Reference to various acts, Dangerous Drugs Act, Classification of Poisons, Action of Poison & its modifications, Diagnosis of poison in Living & Dead, Preservation of Viscera, Duties of Physician in case of suspected poisoning.
16. Corrosive poison, Non-Metallic poison, Metallic Poison
    1. & their Medico- legal aspects Including clinical Picture, treatment P.M. findings.
17. Insecticide & Weed killers, Organic irritant
    1. Including Snakes Bite Food poisons.
18. Somniferous Poisons
    1. including Opium & Derivatives Inebriant Poisons Including Ethyl & Methylalcohol, Deliriant poison including Dhatura, Canabis, Cocaine, Drug addiction, Drug dependence, Management of Drug Addict.
19. Cardiac Poison-Aconite & HCN, Spinal Poisons, Asphyxiants
    1. Including CO, Sewar Gases & War Gases.