About the Course
Medical ethics and law are disciplines with overlapping concepts, yet each discipline has unique parameters and a distinct focus. Dealing with a forensic case automatically binds one to certain laws, duties, responsibilities and ethics.
Breaches of ethical rules may result in disciplinary action by professional bodies and employers. Confidentiality, fair play, consent and other ethical issues are dealt with in detail, apart from Medical Council of India, duties as a doctor etc. Issues of brain death, organ transplant and euthanasia too are discussed in detail. Any forensic proceedings happen under the purview of the Indian Penal Code. Inquest, different categories of courts and their purviews, dying declaration etc. are explained thoroughly.
Target Audience
Medical students – Allopathy, Dental.
Alternative Medicine students – Homeopathy, Ayurveda.
Para/Allied medical students – Nursing, Physiotherapy, BSc Forensic Science, Law.
Post graduate students – Family medicine, MD/MSc/PhD Forensic Medicine, Law.
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.
Aniikeet Garg
Guntur Govt Medical College