The List of skills in forensic medicine and medical law
Each doctor despite of his speciality must possess necessary skills for being able to work as a forensic doctor.
- To hold techniques of forensic investigation of corpses of adults, newborns and young children:
- to be able to estimate early and late post-mortem changes for judging about the time death come in;
- to know order of description of internal, external changes and injuries;
- to conduct test for air embolism (Sunchov’s test), for pneumothorax;
- to learn main types of anatomic section for human body autopsy;
- to know ways of section of internal organs and body’s cavities;
- to be able to describe pathological changes of internal organs, body’s cavities, bones of skeleton.
- To know rules of extraction, packing and sending of materials to additional investigation: forensic-histological, forensic-toxicological, forensic-immunological, forensic- criminalistics, forensic-cytological, forensic-bacteriological, forensic- virologic, biological.
- To fulfill measures preventing spreading of infections while investigation corpses of people died from acute contagious diseases.
- To be able to formulate forensic diagnose.
- To be able to write out death certificate according to demands of “International Statistical Classification of Diseases”.
- To know methods and ways of corpse investigation in place of accident or in place of its discovery.
- To conduct ways and methods of discovering and packing of evidences of biological origin.
- To hold ways of investigation of human beings while:
- conucting stage of difficulty of injuries;
- undefined sexual status;
- sexual crimes;
- alcohol intoxication.
- To know demands of medical documentations (patient’s ambulatory card, clinical record and to be able to analyze them.
- To be able to register forensic documentation of corpse expertise and investigation, human being expertise and investigation.
- To know the content of legislation in sphere medical activity and health protection of population, to demonstrate the skills to analyze them.
- To know main laws which regulate medical practice.
Head of the department
of forensic medicine
and medical law,
professor V.T. Bachinskyi