FORENSIC MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY IMPORTANT EXAM QUESTIONS

This post contains almost all the topics of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology along with their most Important and frequently asked Questions in different Indian university examinations.

This post has been prepared for the benefit of the Medical Forensic science students.

The chapters included are on the basis of syllabus of B.H.M.S. (Degree course) applicable from the academic session 2015-2016, as per the guidelines of Central Council of Homoeopathy (CCH).

All the questions are given under their related chapters.

  • FQ: Full Question
  • SFQ: Semi Full Question
  • SN: Short Note

The Forensic medicine part and Toxicology part both are included in this post.

FORENSIC MEDICINE ​

LEGAL PROCEDURE

  1. FQ: Courts in India and its powers.
  2. FQ: Describe inquest with its types.
  3. FQ: Medical/ Legal evidences with types of evidences.
  4. SN: Conduct Money
  5. SN: Coroner’s Inquest
  6. SN: Difference between dying declaration and dying deposition.
  7. SN: Dying declaration
  8. SN: Juvenile court
  9. SN: Magistrate Inquest
  10. SN: Medical certificate
  11. SN: Medical evidence
  12. SN: Medical Negligence
  13. SN: Summons/ Subpoena
  14. SN: Supreme court and its powers.
  15. SN: Witness

MEDICAL ETHICS AND MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE

  1. FQ: Central Council of Homoeopathy- its functions, ethics and committees in detail.
  2. FQ: Consent with its types and medicolegal importance.
  3. SN: Biomedical waste management.
  4. SN: Criminal Negligence
  5. SN: Ethical Malpractice
  6. SN: Euthanasia/ Mercy killing
  7. SN: Expressed consent
  8. SN: Hippocratic oath
  9. SN: Jurisprudence
  10. SN: Malingering
  11. SN: Medical council of India.
  12. SN: Medical ethics
  13. SN: Medical Negligence
  14. SN: Privileged communication
  15. SN: Professional secrets and confidentiality.
  16. SN: Role of forensic science in homoeopathy.

IDENTIFICATION AND BONES

  1. FQ: Blood as trace evidence.
  2. FQ: Criminal responsibilities of age.
  3. FQ: Finger prints- Its types, advantages and how to use them for identification?
  4. FQ: What is identification?What are the different data for identification of a person?
  5. FQ: How will you determine the age of a person from ossification activity and other changes of bones?
  6. SFQ: Write down the medico-legal importance of different ages.
  7. FQ: What do you understand by trace evidence? how they help for identification of a person?
  8. SFQ/ SN: Kidnapping
  9. SFQ: Tattoo marks 
  10. SN: Medicolegal importance of 18 years of age.
  11. SN: Dactylography
  12. SN: Foot prints with their advantages.
  13. SN: Medicolegal importance of Teeth. 
  14. SN: Use of DNA in identification.

MEDICAL AUTOPSY

  1. FQ: Post-mortem examination
  2. SFQ/ SN: Procedure for external exhumation and internal exhumation at autopsy.
  3. SN: Post-mortem artefacts.

DEATH AND POST-MORTEM CHANGES AFTER DEATH

  1. FQ: Clinical features of coma, syncope and asphyxia.
  2. FQ: Cooling of the dead body and factors affecting it.
  3. FQ: Death- immediate changes after death and what are the tests for nervous death?
  4. FQ: Death- types, sudden and natural causes of death.
  5. SN: Apparent death-modes of death.
  6. SN: Cadaveric spasm
  7. SN: Coma
  8. SN: Death certificate
  9. SN: Forensic Entomology
  10. SN: Mummification
  11. SN: Post-mortem bruise with its medicolegal importance.
  12. SN: Post-mortem Lividity
  13. SN: Post-mortem staining/ Liver mortis
  14. SN: Rigor mortis
  15. SN: Syncope

FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORY

  1. SN: Chromatotherapy
  2. SN: Electrophoresis

INJURIES

1. MECHANICAL INJURY

  1. FQ: Describe mechanical injuries in detail with its medicolegal importance.
  2. SN: Abrasion
  3. SN: Boxer’s injury
  4. SN: Contusion and color changes.
  5. SN: Hesitant wound
  6. SN: Incised wound
  7. SN: Lacerated wound/ Bruise
  8. SN: Stab wound

2. THERMAL INJURY

  1. FQ: Burns- causes of death, types and degrees in detail.
  2. SN: Burning- causes of death.
  3. SN: Difference between Anti-mortem and Post-mortem burns.
  4. SN: Scalds

3. FIREARM INJURY

  1. SN: Gunshot wound
  2. SN: Tandem bullet

4. MEDICOLEGAL IMPORTANCE OF INJURY

  1. SN: Assault
  2. SN: Defense wound
  3. SN: Fabricated wound
  4. SN: Grievous wound

VIOLENT ASPHYXIAL DEATH

  1. FQ: Asphyxia- Types and causes.
  2. FQ: Drowning
  3. FQ: Hanging- Define asphyxia death.
  4. SFQ: Post-mortem findings in strangulation.
  5. SN: Bansdola
  6. SN: Causes of death due to hanging.
  7. SN: Diatoms
  8. SN: Difference between Hanging and Strangulation.
  9. SN: Lynching
  10. SN: Mode/ Mechanism of Drowning.
  11. SN: Post-mortem of neck region in case of strangulation.

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY

  1. SN/SFQ: Criminal responsibility.
  2. SN: Amentia/ Mental retardation
  3. SN: Lucid Interval
  4. SN: Schizophrenia
  5. SN: Somnambulism
  6. SN: Testamentary Capacity

VIRGINITY, SEXUAL OFFENENSIES AND PERVERSATIONS

  1. FQ/ SFQ: Define Rape with difference between Will and Consent.
  2. FQ/ SFQ: Sex perversion
  3. FQ: 375, IPC-Punishment and examination of victim.
  4. FQ: Classify natural sex offences
  5. FQ: Classify unnatural sex offences
  6. FQ: Sodomy-examination findings of active and passive agents.
  7. SN: Bestiality
  8. SN: False virginity
  9. SN: Homosexuality
  10. SN: Imperforated hymen with medicolegal importance.
  11. SN: Lesbianism/ Tribadism
  12. SN: True virginity with its medicolegal aspects.
  13. SN: Victim of rape.

IMPOTENCE, STERILITY AND STERILIZATION

  1. FQ: Impotence and sterility with their medicolegal importance.
  2. FQ: Is nullity of marriage is allowed in impotence, fragility and sterility?
  3. FQ: Sterilization-Methods adopted, legal problems in detail.

PREGNANCY AND DELIVERY

  1. FQ: Recent Delivery-Signs, medicolegal importance and post-mortem findings in detail.
  2. SN: Delivery with its medicolegal importance.
  3. SN: Legitimacy
  4. SN: Medicolegal importance of pregnancy.
  5. SN: Positive signs of Pregnancy.

ABORTION AND MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY

  1. FQ/SFQ: Abortion- Classification, Criminal abortion in detail.
  2. FQ: Abortion- Classification and justifiable abortion in detail.
  3. SN: Medical termination of pregnancy. Indications for justifiable (therapeutic) abortion.

ASSISTED REPRODUCTION

  1. SN: Artificial insemination.
  2. SN: Cloning
  3. SN: Surrogate motherhood.

INFANTICIDE

  1. SN/SFQ: Acts of omission in relation to infanticide.
  2. SN: Crib death/ Cot death/ SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
  3. SN: Female Feticide
  4. SN: Hydrostatic tes

TOXICOLOGY

GENERAL CONSIDERATION

  1. FQ: Classification of poisons, Describe in detail the line of treatment of poisoning cases.
  2. FQ: Diagnosis of poisoning case in living and dead subjects.
  3. FQ: Factors influencing the action of poisons.
  4. FQ: Role of toxicology in homoeopathy.
  5. FQ: Sources of poisons. Describe antidotes in detail.
  6. FQ: Treatment of poisoning cases.
  7. SN: Actions of poisons
  8. SN: Antidotes.
  9. SN: Chelating agents
  10. SN: Classification of poisons.
  11. SN: Different types of emetics.
  12. SN: Gastric lavage
  13. SN: Household emetics.
  14. SN: Ideal suicidal and homicidal poisons.
  15. SN: Importance of toxicology in homoeopathy.
  16. SN: Post-mortem findings of chronic poisoning cases.
  17. SN: Routes of administration of poisons.
  18. SN: Stomach tube
  19. SN: Stomach wash-indications and contraindications.
  20. SN: Universal antidotes.

MEDICO LEGAL CONSIDERATION OF TOXICOLOGY

  1. SN: Cosmetic act
  2. SN: Drug and Cosmetic act.
  3. SN: Duties of medical practitioner while examining the poisoning case.
  4. SN: Preservation of viscera.

CORROSIVE AGENTS

  1. FQ: Carbolic acid and Oxalic acid poisoning.
  2. FQ: Hydrochloric acid poisoning.
  3. SN: Oxalic acid poisoning.
  4. SN: Sulphuric acid poisoning.
  5. SN: Treatment of corrosive poisoning.
  6. SN: Vitriolage/ Vitriol throwing.

INORGANIC IRRITANTS: NON-METALLIC POISONS

  1. SN: Difference between white and red phosphorus.
  2. SN: Phossy jaw/ Glass jaw.

INORGANIC IRRITANTS: METALLIC POISONS

  1. FQ: Arsenic-An ideal homicidal poison. Explain.
  2. SN: BAL
  3. SN: Mercurial erethism
  4. SN: Treatment of lead poisoning.

ORGANIC IRRITANTS: CHEMICAL POISONS

  1. FQ: Organophosphorus compounds/ Tik-20.
  2. SN: D.D.T./ Chlorinated Hydrocarbons.
  3. SN: Prophylaxis against organophosphorus compounds and halogenated compounds.
  4. SN: Smoke

VEGETABLE IRRITANTS

  1. SN: ABRUS PRECATORIUS.
  2. SN: Ergotism
  3. SN: Plumbago/ Plumbagin.
  4. SN: Ricinus communis

ANIMAL IRRITANTS

  1. FQ: Different poisonous and non-poisonous snakes with post-mortem findings of their bites.
  2. FQ: Treatment of Cobra snake bite poisoning.
  3. FQ: Treatment of Viper snake bite poisoning.
  4. FQ: Viper snake bite poisoning.
  5. SN: Elapid poisoning
  6. SN: Scorpion bite poisoning.
  7. SN: Treatment of snake bite poisoning case.

CARDIAC POISONS

  1. FQ: Cyanide poisoning/ Hydrocyanic acid poisoning.
  2. SN: Cardiac poisons
  3. SN: Digitalis poisoning
  4. SN: Post mortem findings of Cyanide poisoning.

ASPHYXIANTS

  1. FQ: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning
  2. SN: Carbon dioxide poisoning

SPINAL POISONS

  1. FQ: Signs, symptoms, treatment and post-mortem findings of Strychnine poisoning/ Nux Vomica poisoning.
  2. SN: Difference between Strychnine poisoning and Tetanus.
  3. SN: Opisthotonus

CEREBRAL POISONS

1. NARCOTICS/SOMNIFEROUS POISONS

  1. FQ: Opium poisoning
  2. SN: Heroin
  3. SN: Stupefying agents

2. INEBRIANT POISONS

  1. FQ: Ethyl alcohol poisoning.
  2. FQ: Methyl alcohol poisoning with post mortem appearance.
  3. SN: Alcoholic confusional insanity.
  4. SN: Alcoholism
  5. SN: Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome.
  6. SN: What is drunkenness? How will you diagnose a case of drunkenness?

3. DELIRIANT POISONS

  1. FQ: Datura poisoning-medicolegal importance, fatal dose and treatment with post mortem findings.

4. HYPNOTICS

  1. SN: Barbiturate poisoning.

5. CEREBRAL STIMULANTS

  1. SN: Cocaine poisoning.
  2. FQ: Kerosene poisoning.

6. HALLUCINOGENS

  1. FQ: Cannabis Indica.
  2. SN: L.S.D.-25.

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