About the Course
Forensic medicine is a branch of medicine where the principles and knowledge of medicine are used for purposes of law, be it civil or criminal law. Forensic medicine encompasses all areas in which medicine and law interact.
Identification is an important step in solving any criminal or civil case. Finger, foot, lip prints, identification of sex, age of a person, importance of tattoos, scars, examination of hair, DNA fingerprinting etc. are various ways of identification and all of these are discussed in detail in this course along with their medico-legal relevance.
Target Audience
Medical students – Allopathy, Dental.
Alternative Medicine students – Homeopathy, Ayurveda.
Para/Allied medical students – Nursing, Physiotherapy, BSc Forensic Science.
Post graduate students – Family medicine, MD/MSc/PhD Forensic Medicine.
Course Delivery Format
This course is delivered entirely online. It consists of a series of comprehensive lectures by a professor in the subject, appropriately annotated with slides, animations and wherever necessary, interactive content. The delivery offers tremendous flexibility. You may pause a teacher while you refer to your textbooks (not includes) and to take notes. You may also rewind a segment to listen to the teacher again or you may skip a slide or two if you already know that bit. You may bookmark a segment that you wish to return to later, maybe to refresh just before your exams. While the lessons in this course may be arranged in a particular order based on our curriculum, you have the flexibility to take them in order of your preference based on your personalized learning needs.
Benefits
While this course is to help you learn the subject from an online faculty, it may help you in several ways even if you are already enrolled in some medical, dental or paramedical school. Many of our students felt that the format in which this course is delivered has helped them to cope up against the fast paced lectures in actual class – it’s like having a TV remote in class to self-pace your teacher. Animations help understand concepts better by making concepts easy to understand… and difficult to forget.
Divya Borah
Guntur Govt Medical College