DEPARTMENT OF FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY

HNSHMC. Rajkot

• Identify the basic medicolegal aspect of hospital and general practice.


• Define the medicolegal responsibilities of a general physician while rendering community service either in a rural primary health centre or an urban health centre.


• Appreciate the physician ‘s responsibilities in criminal matters and respect for the codes of medical ethics.


• Diagnose , manage and identify also legal aspect of common acute and chronic poisoning.


• Describe the medicolegal aspects and findings of post mortem examination in case of death due to common unnatural conditions and poisonings.


• Detect occupational and environmental poisoning , prevention and epidemiology of common poisoning and their legal aspects particularly pertaining to workmen ‘s compensation Act.


• Describe the general principles of analytical toxicology.