About the Course
All deaths due to unnatural causes and deaths that are believed to be due to natural causes but where the medical cause of death is not certain or known are subjected to an inquest. The objective of an inquest is to ascertain facts pertaining to and leading to death.
This is achieved by inquiry and at the conclusion of the inquest a verdict is passed as to whether the cause of death was natural, accidental, suicidal or homicidal. To ascertain the exact cause of death in aforesaid conditions, autopsy is done.
Autopsy is a complete head to toe and gross to microscopic examination of a dead body to ascertain the cause of death. In this course the procedure of a post-mortem examination, right from different types to the legalities around it, to their medico-legal application and relevance are all discussed at length and in detail.
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.
Warren Joseph
Guntur Govt Medical College