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.