How to Study Forensic Medicine for FMGE?

Recommended Book for Forensic Medicine

• Review of Forensic Medicine by Dr. Sumit Seth

Most Important Topics of Forensic Medicine for FMGE

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1. Legal Procedure

• Inquest
• Types of courts
• Evidence
• Oath
• Dying Declaration Vs Dying Deposition
• Witness

2. Medical Law and Ethics

• MCI Function
• Professional Misconduct/Infamous Conduct Vs Professional Negligence
• Privileged Communication
• Consent
• Res Ipsa Loquitur
• Euthanasia
• Health Related Declarations of World Medical Council

3. Identification

• Age, Race, Sex Determination (Very Important)
• Hair
• Dactylography
• Teeth
• Poroscopy

4. Autopsy

• Types of Autopsy
• Techniques
• Embalming
• Preservation of Viscera in Poisoning
• Artefact
• Exhumation

5. Thanatology

• Suspended Animation
• Signs of Death (Algor Mortis, Rigor Mortis, Changes In Eye, Post - Mortem, Hypostasis, Putrefaction, Adipocere, Mummification)
• Criteria of Death
• Entomology
• Death Certificate

6. Injuries

• Abrasion
• Contusion
• Laceration
• Incised Wound
• Stab Wound
• Firearm Wounds
• Thermal (Cold and Hot Injuries)
• Range of Firearms
• Types of Bullets
• Bomb Explosion Injuries

7. Burn Injuries

• AM Vs PM Burn
• Post Mortem Changes
• Burn Classification
• Electrocution
• Lightening Injury

8. Starvation

9. Mechanical Asphyxia

• Hanging
• Strangulation
• Throttling
• Drowning

10. Impotency, Sterility, ART, Legitimacy, Pregnancy, Delivery

11. Abortion and Infanticide

12. Sexual offence

• Rape
• Sodomy
• Unnatural Sexual Offence
• Punishment of Sexual Offence

13. Real Insanity Vs Feigned Insanity

14. Blood Examination

15. Toxicology

• General Toxicology

16. Specific Toxicology

• Organophosphate Poisoning
• Corrosive Poisons
• Metallic Poisons
• Cardiac Poisons
• Datura, Opium, Cannabis
• Strychnine
• Cyanide Poisoning
• Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
• Snake Poisoning
• Agricultural Poisons
• Alcohol