FORENSIC PATHOLOGY

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Goals of the Forensic Medicine Module

1.    To provide medical students with a firm grounding in basic medico-legal and ethical principles relevant to clinical practice, so that they may be thus guided in the course of their interaction with patients and, ultimately, as clinicians of the future.

2.    To familiarize medical students with the rudiments of forensic pathology and clinical forensic medicine, so as to enable them to deal with forensic issues, which commonly arise in clinical practice, effectively. This would include the proper recognition and documentation of injuries, as well as their interpretation (where appropriate), together with an adequate appreciation of the medico-legal implications of iatrogenic injuries. 

Themes

1.    Death and Post-mortem changes

2.    Sudden and Delayed deaths

3.    An overview of traumatic injuries and their general interpretation

4.    The Coroner's system in Singapore

5.    Clinical Forensic Medicine (I)

6.    Clinical Forensic Medicine (II)

7.    Iatrogenic injury (I)

8.    Iatrogenic injury (II)

9.    Ancillary investigation in Forensic Pathology

10.  Forensic applications of DNA profiling

Essays

1.    Brain death

2.    DNA Fingerprinting

Resources

1.    Medical ethics: four principles plus attention to scope, R Gillon, BMJ editorial 1994

2.    Patients' prerogatives and perceptions of benefit, Frank Kee, BMJ editorial 1996

3.    Human Organ Transplant Act 1987, Singapore

4.    Proposed Amendments to the Human Organ Transplant Act, Public Consultation Paper, Ministry of Health, Singapore, 2003

5.    What is DNA Fingerprinting?

6.    ABC to allergies: Adverse reactions to drugs, BMJ Clinical review 1996

7.    Clinical review: Adverse reactions to drugs, BMJ 1998

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