FORENSIC MEDICINE & TOXICOLOGY, CHRI – IMPORTANT ESSAY QNS FOR ASSIGNMENT
1. Describe the procedure of recording evidence in a Court of Law
2. Professional misconduct / Infamous conduct / Warning Notice
3. Define Medical negligence. Explain various types of negligence with suitable examples. What
precautions a Doctor has to take to prevent a charge of negligence against him?
4. Define consent. What are the types? Add a note on informed consent & its exceptions
5. Consumer Protection Act, 2019 / COPRA
6. Dactylography / Dermatoglyphics / Galton system / Fingerprint system
7. Discuss the procedure of restraint, admission & discharge of the mentally ill person from the
Psychiatric hospital
8. Mc Naughten’s Rule / S. 84 IPC / Criminal responsibility of a mentally ill person
9. Types of Autopsy; Objectives & Rules of Medicolegal autopsy
10. Define death. What are the stages of death? Add a note on Brainstem death
11. Enumerate the changes that occur in the body after death. Discuss about Muscular changes
after death
12. Post-mortem hypostasis / Livor mortis
13. Factors used in the determination of Postmortem interval
14. Classify Mechanical Injuries. Write in detail about Abrasions including Medicolegal Importance
15. Differences between Incised wounds & Lacerated wounds
16. Describe various types of Skull fractures with diagrams
17. Enumerate Intracranial hemorrhages. Explain in detail about Extradural hemorrhage
18. Write an essay on injuries sustained by Pedestrians in Road traffic accidents
19. Define & classify firearms. Describe the features of the entry wound of a pistol shoat at
various ranges. Tabulate the differences between Entry & Exit bullet wounds
20. Describe the features of a wound of entry by a Shotgun at various ranges
21. Tabulate the differences between antemortem & postmortem wounds. Discuss the causes of
death from wounds
22. S.320 IPC / Grievous hurt
23. Wilson’s classification of burns. Describe the postmortem findings & Causes of death in burns
24. Discuss the injuries, causes of death in a cases of Electrocution & Lightning
25. Definition, Types, Causes of death & Postmortem features in a case of hanging. Tabulate the
differences b/w Antemortem hanging & Postmortem suspension
26. Tabulate the differences b/w Hanging & Ligature strangulation; Discuss the PM findings in
Manual strangulation / Throttling
27. Define Drowning. Types, Pathophysiology, Causes of death & Postmortem findings in
Drowning deaths
28. Diatom Test
29. Causes of Impotence & Sterility in Males. Add a note of Medico-legal aspects
30. Definition & Types of Artificial insemination. Discuss the indications, biological & legal aspects
and precautions of Artificial insemination
31. Presumptive, Probable & Positive signs of Pregnancy in the Living; MLI of Pregnancy
32. Types of Hymen with diagrams & Medicolegal aspects of Hymen
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33. Precipitate Labour, Pseudocyesis / Phantom pregnancy / Spurious labour & Surrogate
motherhood
34. Define Rape [S.375 IPC]. Describe the procedure of Examination of a Victim of Rape. Add a
note on materials to be collected for laboratory investigations
35. Classify Sexual offences. Add a note on examination of the Accused of Rape & materials to be
preserved from him
36. Define & classify Abortion. Mention the salient provisions of MTP [Amendment] Act, 2021
[Refer LMS PPT]
37. Write in detail about the diagnosis and evidence of criminal abortion in the dead. What are
the duties of Dr in dealing with a case of suspected criminal abortion pt.?
38. Write about Abortifacient drugs. Enumerate the causes of death in Criminal abortion
39. Define Infanticide. Describe the methods adopted for carrying out Infanticide. Add a note on
Macerated foetus
40. Discuss about Signs of Livebirth. Make a note on Raygat’s / Hydrostatic Test along with its
fallacies
41. Write about Battered Baby Syndrome/ Caffey’s syndromne; Mention the Causes of SIDS & its
MLI
42. Narco-analysis or Truth serum Test. Brain Mapping or Brain Fingerprinting
43. Applications of DNA profiling
44. Define & Classify Poisons. Discuss the Medico-legal Duties of Dr. in a case of suspected
poisoning
45. Definition & Types of Antidotes with examples; Chelating agents with Examples
46. Describe the procedure of Stomach wash with a labeled diagram. Mention the
contraindications
47. Describe Classify Agricultural poisons; Write in detail about the MOA, Clinical features,
diagnosis, treatment & PM findings in a case of Organophosphorous compound poisoning;
What is “Plant penicillin”?
48. Clinical features & Treatment of Plumbism
49. Clinical features of Hydrargyrism; Clinical features of Arsenicosis / Chronic Arsenic Poisoning
50. Clinical features, Complications, Treatment & PM findings in a case of Sulphuric acid
poisoning; Make a note on Vitriolage & its MLI
51. Clinical features of (i). Carbolic Acid / Phenol poisoning (ii). Oxalic acid poisoning
52. Make a note on (i). Toxalbumin / Phototoxin with examples (ii). Sui
(iii). Spanish fly / Cantharide / Blister beetle
53. Define Ophitoxemia. What are the common causes of poisonous Snakebite in India? Write in
detail about the Clinical features & Treatment of cobra envenomation
54. Clinical features & Treatment of (i). Viper bite (ii). Scorpion sting
55. Define Drunkenness; Discuss the various stages of alcohol intoxication. Make a Note on
Delirium Tremens
56. Active principles, Clinical features & Treatment of Datura poisoning / Road or Roadside poison
57. Commercial forms of Cannabis; Run amok; Magnan’s symptom / Cocaine bugs / Formication;
Phossy Jaw; Hippus
58. Clinical features, Mechanism of action & Treatment of Cyanide poisoning
