Department of Forensic Medicine

About Us

  • Forensic Medicine & Toxicology is a multidisciplinary subject bridging medicine & law. It deals with the application of medical knowledge for legal purposes, such as crime-related investigations solving sensational cases appraising the law courts to dispense justice.
  • Apart from these duties to enforce law and order and render unbiased justice academically the department is providing training to undergraduate students in performing medico-legal examinations such as age estimation, wound assessment, examination of survivors of sexual assaults and accused persons of rape, and also a drunken person
  • Educating ethics to medical students, applying standard guidelines for safe practice, and protecting themselves from civil torts, consumer, and criminal cases that may arise while dealing with patients.

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Our Vision

  • To set the department at a benchmark level for providing one of the highest levels of teaching to undergraduates.
  • To provide our best teaching & training to students from other paramedical courses.
  • To sensitize & educate Emergency Medical officers about the handling of medico-legal cases.
  • To develop a platform for research works in new specialized programs with the latest technologies in the field of crime detection & toxicology.

Our Mission

  • Use of the latest teaching technology in conducting traditional lectures & interactive lecture classes.
  • Small group discussions, Perform under a simulated environment, Perform under supervision, or Perform independent techniques of teaching may be used during the practical classes.
  • Regular periodic programs on quizzes, poster presentations, seminars, and mock court trials depending on the suitability of the chapters.
  • Enlightening on day-to-day crime and consumer cases from Newspaper cuts.
  • Horizontal & Vertical Integrated teachings & chapter-wise assignments.
  • Periodic motivational interaction with students

Academics

  • MBBS(2nd year, 3rd year and CRMI)
  • MDS

Infrastructure

  • Practical Hall
    Practical Hall
    • 304.55 square meters with a seating capacity of 130 students. Available facilities are X-ray and X-ray view boxes, bones, dental casts, and other facilities.
    Museum
    Museum
    • A virtual museum spreading over an area of 250.41 Square meters with the following teaching facilities like wet specimens, wax models, weapons, poisons, wound man, and wall-mounted photos.
    Research Laboratory
    Research Laboratory
    • It has an area of 54.10 Square meters with the facilities of modern research types of equipment.
    Library Cum Seminar Hall
    Library Cum Seminar Hall
    • It has an area of 33 Square meters with a seating capacity of 25. It is equipped with computer and Wi-Fi facilities.
    Demonstration Rooms
    Demonstration Rooms
    • The department has two air-conditioned demonstration rooms of about 103 Square meters in size with a seating capacity of 75. It is well equipped with LCD Projectors, Audio-visual aids, and Wi-Fi connectivity.
    Mock Court
    Mock Court
    • It has an area of 35 Square meters with a seating capacity of 30 students. It has all the facilities of a mock trial both consumer and criminal cases.
    Mortuary
    Mortuary
    • The Mortuary block is situated about 200 meters away from the hospital. It has an area of 604 Square meters with two autopsy tables, cold storage provision for 8 dead bodies. The autopsy hall is well-ventilated, fly proof and can accommodate 75 students in a gallery-type platform.

Faculty

Dr.Manohar.C

B.Sc, MD, MA (Psy), D.C.L., BGL

Professor & Head

Dr. K. Sanjeev

MD (FM)

Professor

Dr.K.S.Arun Prakash

MD(FM), LLB

Associate Professor

Dr.P.Vishvek Senaraj

MBBS

Tutor

Dr. Charanya Sathyamoorthy

MBBS, AFIH

Tutor
  • Lecture Classes
  • Flipped Classroom
  • Small group discussion
  • DOAP session
  • Bedside clinic
  • Role-play
  • Court visits
  • Moot Court
  • Autopsy Demonstration
  • Post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death, time since death, manner of death, and to prepare the required document.
  • Fetal examination to determine gestational age and viability.
  • Skeletal remains examination to establish identification.
B. Clinical Forensic Medicine:-
  • a. Age estimation
  • b. Wound assessment
  • c. Sexual offenses examination
  • d. Drunkenness examination
  • e. Examination of poison cases.
  • f. Examination of a person in human rights violation cases
C. Expert Opinion for Legal Purposes:
  • To offer expert medical or medico-legal evidence in a court of law.
  • Department library- Number of books :110
  • List of Journals: 3 Journals, 13 e-journals
  • b) Other Learning resources in the Dept- Mounted specimen 240
  • Bones 250
  • Proto-type fire and other arms. 64
  • Wax Models 35
  • Poisons 50
  • Charts/Diagrams 80
  • Models 35
  • Dental cast & OPGs 50
  • Photographs 270
  • X-rays 200