About Forensic Medicine & Toxicology Department

Goal

• To help  students to learn the legal aspects of medical practice.
• To understand the harmful effects poisons on human body its diagnosis and management.

Objectives

At the end of the course the student shall be able to,

• Examine the Medico legal case and prepare Medico legal reports and certificates accordingly.

• Conduct medico legal postmortem examination and interpret appropriate autopsy findings.

• Make them aware about legal and ethical aspects of medical practice.

• To make them aware about Legal procedures in the court of law.

• Collect and preserve the samples in medico legal cases and their evidentiary utilization in the court of law.

• To make them aware about diagnosis and management of poisoning.

• To identify the effects of poisons on human body in ante mortem as well as in postmortem cases.