Department of Forensic Medicine

VMMC

Department of Forensic Medicine | Overview

The department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology is well equipped with spacious laboratory and demonstration hall. There are 32 microscopes for students use for doing slide preparation and examination and 60 wet specimens. Osteological unit with bone sets, museum for weapons, snakes and toxicological specimens along with fetuses and radiological examination unit for X-ray viewing for age estimation are also available.
There is a full fledged library. Mortuary for medio legal cases has freezers. 
Conferences, CME and Research activities are regularly been carried out.

Areas of Training
Impart knowledge of legal procedure
Obligation code of conduct and duties of medical practitioner in conduction of his profession.
Assessment of injuries
Witnessing the post mortem procedures and viscera packing/preservation.
Effect and treatment of medico legal importance of poisons.
Medico legal documentation of injuries/sexual offences.
Assessment of age of individual from dentition/ x-rays
Establishment of identify from various dates.


NAAC NABL

Accredited by NAAC


Recognised by MCI


Pre Accredited by NABH


Accredited by TMC


UGC Recognised