Forensic Medicine - Online Course

Forensic Medicine - Medical Course Subject


Forensic Medicine





Introduction


1. The practice of forensic medicine
2. Cause of death
3. The primary cause of death
4. The inquest
5. Violence and causes of death in country




Basic anatomy and physiology


1. General structure and working of the body
2. The skeleton
3. The muscles
4. The nervous system
5. Contents of the cavities of the chest and abdomen
6. The skin
7. The working of the body
8. The digestion stage
9. Use of foods and oxygen in the body
10. Excretion of waste matter
11. Circulation of the blood
12. The blood vessels - Circulation of the blood
13. The heart - Circulation of the blood
14. The portal circulation - Circulation of the blood
15. Valves of the heart - Circulation of the blood
16. The pulse
17. Bleeding from arteries and veins
18. Respiration




Post mortem changes


1. Post-mortem changes
2. Early post-mortem changes
3. Late post-mortem changes
4. Relevant topics - Post-mortem changes




Identification


1. Forensic Medicine: Identification
2. Forensic Medicine: Age determination
3. Determination of sex
4. Determining height
5. Determining ethnic type (race)
6. Personal identity - Forensic Medicine
7. Molecular biology - Forensic Medicine
8. Case studies: Comparison of skulls and photographs




General traumatology


1. Definition of trauma
2. Types of trauma
3. Mechanical trauma
4. Classification of mechanical trauma
5. Description of wounds
6. Dating of wounds




Complications of trauma


1. Shock
2. Embolism
3. Pneumothorax




Head injuries


1. Head injuries
2. Classification of head injuries
3. Types of head injuries




Asphyxia


1. Anoxia/hypoxia
2. Classification of asphyxic deaths
3. 'Classical' signs of asphyxia
4. Causes of asphyxic death: Suffocation
5. Causes of asphyxic death: Smothering
6. Causes of asphyxic death: Choking
7. Causes of asphyxic death: Restriction of respiratory movements
8. Causes of asphyxic death: Deaths due to pressure on the neck
9. Causes of asphyxic death: Hanging
10. Causes of asphyxic death: Auto-erotic deaths
11. Causes of asphyxic death: Drowning




Firearm injuries


1. Firearm injuries
2. Pathophysiology of gunshot wounds and wound ballistics
3. Examination of the body
4. Cutaneous (skin) entrance wounds caused by rifled firearms
5. Cutaneous gunshot exit wounds caused by rifled firearms
6. Gunshot wounds caused by smooth-bore firearms (shotguns)
7. Injury by rubber and plastic bullets
8. Industrial nail guns
9. Blank cartridge injuries
10. Accident, suicide or homicide?




Thermal electrical atmospheric pressure and radiation associated deaths


1. Deaths caused by abnormal temperatures
2. Deaths caused by electricity
3. Death due to radiation
4. Diseases due to atmospheric pressure




Toxicology and alcohol


1. Toxicology and alcohol
2. Toxicology in general
3. Carbon-monoxide poisoning
4. Alcohol
5. Production of alcohol
6. Pharmacodynamics of alcohol
7. Alcohol-level analysis
8. Alcohol: Calculations
9. Alcohol: Pharmacological effect
10. The role of alcohol in unnatural deaths




Pregnancy associated deaths


1. Causes of maternal death




Paediatric forensic pathology


1. Paediatric forensic pathology
2. Infanticide and concealment of birth
3. The battered-baby syndrome (Caffey's syndrome or non-accidental injury syndrome)
4. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or Cot death)




Sexual offences


1. Rape
2. Sexually transmitted diseases
3. Interpretation of clinical findings
4. Sodomy (buggery; anal intercourse)