FM
LEGAL PROCEDURES
SHORT NOTES:
1.Subpoena(6)
2.Dying declaration(5)
3.Magistrate inquest(3)
4.Inquest(2)
5.Cross Examination(2)
6.Medical Etiquette
7.Police inquest
8.Session court
9.Cognizable offence
10.Conduct money
11.Medical evidence
12.Documentary Evidence
13.Witness
14.Expert witness
15.Hostile witness
LAWS AND ETHICS
ESSAY
1.The functions of state medical council,professional misconduct/
warning notice and rules of consent(2)
2.Define medical negligence discuss a cause of medical
negligence(2)
3.Professional misconduct and procedure of disciplinary action in
such a case with example
4.Define Medical negligence. Explain the various type of
negligence with suitable examples.What precautions a doctor has to
take to prevent a charge of negligence.
SHORT NOTES:
1.Functions of Indian Medical council(6)
2.Consent,rules of consent(5)
3.Privileged communication(4)
4.Vicarious liability(4)
5.Contributory Negligence(3)
6.Infamous conduct(2)
7.Res ipsi loquitur(2)
8.Novus actus interveniens(2)
9.Therapeutic misadventures(2)
10.Euthanasia(2)
11.State medical council
12.Penal erasure
13.Professional death sentence
14.Professional misconduct
15.Serious professional misconduct
16.Warning notice
17.Corporate negligence
18.Medical indemnity insurance
19.Malingering
IDENTIFICATION
ESSAY
1.Dactylography(7)
2.Gustafson’s method(4)
3.Corpus delicti(2)
4.Medical legal importance of age(2)
5.Tattoo marks(2)
6.Hair
7.Intersex
8.Gonadal dysgenesis
9.Inter sex and its medico legal importance
10.Rule of Hasse
11.Dermatography
12.Chieloscopy
13. Superimposition
14.Application of X-ray in FM
MEDICOLEGAL AUTOPSY
SHORT NOTES:
1.Medico legal autopsy(2)
2.Objectives of medico legal autopsies(2)
3.Exhumation(2)
4.Air embolism
5.Undertaker’s fracture
6.Method of examination of heart in autopsy
7.Virtual autopsy
9.Preservation of viscera for histopathological examination
DEATH AND ITS CAUSES
SHORT NOTES:
1.Obscure autopsy(3)
2.Mode of death(2)
3.Concept of brain death
4.Anoxia blebs
5.Syncope
POSTMORTEM CHANGES
ESSAY:
1.Various factors that help in establishing the time since death(3)
2.Muscular changes in a Dead body(2)
3.Rigor mortis
4.Enumerate the changes that occurs in the body after
death.Briefly describe Rigor mortis.
5.The late changes occurring after death, discuss the changes
taking place in decomposting and the M.L significance.
6.What is post-mortem interval.Discuss in detail the various
factors that are helpful in determining the postmorte interval.
SHORT NOTES:
1.Changes in the eye after death(3)
2.Rigor mortis(3)
3.Cadaveric spasm(3)
4.Post mortem hypostasis(2)
5.Suspended animation
6.Infamous animation
7.Algor mortis
8.Postmortem caloricity
9.Liver Mortis
10. Cadaveric lividity
11. Pseudo Bruisae
12. Difference between hypostasis and burisae
13. Marbling
14. Adipocere
MECHANICAL INJURIES
ESSAY:
1.Mechanical injuries, Difference between Suicidal and
homicidal/ Difference between laceration and inside
wounds(2)
2.Abrasion types &medico legal importance(2)
3.Classify mechanical injuries.Write in detail on Abrasions
4.Antemortem wounds and various causes of death from
wounds
5.Classify injuries and discuss cause of death,Difference
between antemortem and postmortem wounds.
6.Classify injuries.Differentiate antemortem wounds from
post mortem wounds.Discuss the causes of death from
wounds
7.Enumerate the effects of Bomb Explosive injuries,What
are the methods to identify the mutilated bodies.
SHORT NOTES:
1.Laceration(2)
2.Defense wounds(2)
3.Abrasion collar(2)
4.Difference between entry and exit Bullet wounds(2)
5.Classification of laceration
6.Weapon identification by examination of stab injuries
7.Difference between incised and stab wounds
8.Determination of caliber of gun
9.Bomb blast injuries
REGIONAL INJURIES
ESSAY:
1.Enumerate intracranial hemorrhages. Explain in detail
about the extradural hemorrhage
SHORT NOTES:
1.Contre-coupe injuries(3)
2.Skull fracture(2)
3.Lucid interval in head injuries(2)
4.Whiplash injury(2)
5.Intracranial Hemorrhage
6.Types of intracranial haemorrhages
7.Sub Dural Hemorrhage
8.Primary impact injuries
M.L OF WOUNDS
ESSAY:
1.What is culpable homicide.Discuss on justifiable homicide
SHORT NOTES
1.Grievous hurt(6)
2.Section 320 IPC
3.Dowry death
4.Sudden Death
THERMAL DEATH
SHORT NOTES:
1.Rule of nine(2)
2.Pugilistic attitude(2)
4.Scalds
5.Joule burn
6.Arborescent markings
7.Difference between antermortem and postmortem
burns injury.
MECHANICAL ASPHYXIA
ESSAY:
1. Define & classify hanging & discuss complete
hanging(4)
2. Classify asphyxia forms of death and difference
between hanging and strangulation by ligature(3)
3. Various types of violent Asphyxial
death,signs,symptoms, treatment
& post mortem appearance of drowning(3)
4. Define drowning.Discuss in detail the
types,pathophysiology and postmortem changes in
drowning.Difference between antemortem and
postmortem drowning.(2)
5. Classify violent asphyxia deaths. Discuss about the
specific autopsy findings in death due to
hanging.Enumerate the causes of death due to
hanging.
6. Define asphyxia.Enumerate the types of
hanging.Describe in detail the postmortem findings
in case of hanging.
SHORT NOTES:
1. Traumatic asphyxia(4)
2. Fracture of hyoid bone(3)
3. Postmortem appearance of drowning(2)
4. Diatoms test(2)
5. Sexual asphyxia(2)
6. Manual strangulation
7. Postmortem finding in throttling
8. Mugging
STERILITY AND VIRGINITY
ESSAY:
1. Define the definition and types of artificial
insemination.Discuss the indication,biological,legal
aspects and precaution of Artificial insemination(5)
SHORT NOTES:
1. Hymen(3)
2. Signs of recent delivery in living(3)
3. Artificial insemination-Legal problems(2)
4. Surrogate motherhood
5. Signs of virginity
6. Super foetation
7. Pseudocyesis
8. Signs of recent delivery
ABORTIONS
ESSAY:
1. Live birth,Difference between still and live birth (2)
2. Define abortion and describe MTP
3. Define and classify abortion.Write in detail about the
diagnosis and evidence of criminal abortion in a dead.Add
a note on medico legal importance of criminal abortion.
SHORT NOTES:
1. Medical termination of pregnancy (MTP act 1971)(7)
2. Criminal abortion/Complications of criminal abortion(3)
3. Maceration(3)
4. Hydrostatic test(2)
5. Battered baby syndrome(2)
6. Dead born foetus
7. Signs of live birth
8. Shaken baby syndrome
SEXUAL OFFENCES
ESSAY:
1. Define Rape & Examination of Victim(6)
SHORT NOTES:
1. Sodomy(4)
2. Section 375 of I.P.C
3. Custodial Rape
4. Genital examination in rape victim
5. Collection of evidence in rape cases
6. Indecet assault
7. Molestation
8. Indecent assault
9. Sexual perversions
10. Masochism
11. Fetichism
12. Masturbation
13. Chemical examination for seminal fluids
14. Preciptin test
ARTEFACTS
SHORT NOTES:
1. Locard’s principle(4)
2. Resuscitation artifacts(3)
3. Test for blood stains
4. Spectroscopy examination of blood stains
5. Disputed paternity
6. Polygraph
7. Truth Serum
FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY
ESSAY:
1. Classify Insanity.What is delusion? Describe the various
types of Delusion?
2. The restraints of an Insane person
SHORT NOTES:
1. Delusion(6)
2. Hallucination(5)
3. Lucid interval(3)
4. Civil responsibility of insane person(2)
5. Testamentary capacity insanity(2)
6. Mc Naughten’s rule
7. Obession
8. Impulse
9. Kleptomania
10. Psychopathic personality
11. A.L.I Test
12. Criminal responsibility of mentally ill person
TOXICOLOGY
ESSAY:
1. Classify poisons & the duties of a doctor in a case of
poisoning/ management of a cause of acute
poisoning(3)
2. Stomach wash with diagram & antidotes(2)
3. OPC Poisoning(2)
4. Methanol poisoning(2)
5. Barbiturate poisoning(2)
6. Enumerate the irrespirable gases. Discuss the
pharmacological actions, signs and symptoms,
diagnosis,treatment and post mortem appearance of
Carbon monoxide poisoning(2)
7. Define poison. What are the characters of Ideal
homicidal poisoning.Describe the duties of a doctor
when a poisoning case was admitted in the casualty
8. Classify aagricultural poisons.Write in detail about the
treatment and post mortem findings in a case of
organo phosphorous compound poisoning
9. Insecticide poisoning
10.Acute Phenol poisoning
11.Define poisoning.Write in detail about signs
,symptoms and post mortem changes of arsenic
poisoning
12.Describe the signs,symptoms, treatment and autopsy
findings in a case of Chronic mercury poisoning
13.Define drunkenness and methanol poisoning
14.Enumerate alkaloids and morphine poisoning
15.Phenobarbitone Poisoning
16.Describe the signs, symptoms, treatment and autopsy
findings in a case of Cyanide poisoning
17.Hydrocyanic acid poisoning
SHORT NOTES:
1. Duties of medical practitioner of the cause of poisoning(3)
2. Datura poisoning(2)
3. Ideal suicidal Poisons(2)
4. Antidote(2)
5. Universal antidote(2)
6. Run amok(2)
7. Plumbism(2)
8. Hallucinogenic drug(2)
9. Acute lead poisoning
10. Hydrargysism
11. Chronic mercury poisoning
12. Treatment of OPC poisoning
13. Ideal Homicidal poisons
14. Post mortem appearance of copper sulphate
poisoning
15. Plant penicillin poisoning
16. Phytotoxin
17. Abrus precatorius
18. Ecobolics
19. Spanish fly
20. Difference between Russel viper and cobra
21. Differencebetween poisonous and non-poisonous
snake
22. Ophitoxemia
23. Consumer protection act
24. Treatment of viperine snake bite
25. First aid for snake bite
26. Marihuana
27. Metallic poisons
28. Stupefying agents
29. Arsenic poison
30. Viper bite
31. Difference between drug addiction and habituation
32. War gases
33. Hydrocyanic acid poisoning
34. Mushroom poisoning
35. Penicillamine
