The Department imparts teaching and practival training in the Subject Forensic Medicine, Toxicology & medical Jurisprudence to the M B B S Students. Practical classes are taken on various aspects of medicolegal autopsy and preparation of various medicolegal certificates. These include PMCs, Wound certification of potency, examination for certification of Sexual offence victim, Certification of cases of Drunkenness, examination of human bones and certification and examination of Subjects for age estimation and certification.
Practical classes also include study of ossification data by taking x-ray films, study of infant death cases, demonstration of various human specimens, bones, snakes, toxicology specimens (includeing poisonous plants), ammunitions, weapons, foetal autopsy specimens, demonstration of various slides of medicolegal importance. Students also have occasion to witness medicolegal autopsies of different cases.
Previous 10 Batches of MBBS Students have witnessed various medicolegal autopsies. (This was from Academy of Medical Sciences, Pariyaram, District Hospital, Palakkad, Victoria Hospital attached to Bangalore Medical College & Research Institute and General Hospital, Trichur ).
It is understood that our Department is the only Forensic Medicine department, among all the Medical colleges in Kerala, including Govt. Medical colleges, which conduct the maximum number of Practical classes to IInd. MBBS Students in the Subject Forensic Medicine & Toxicology.
