Portal:Questions for final examination in Forensic Medicine

Ethics of medical practice

 * 1) Physician as a public agent
 * 2) Physician's responsibility for medical staff
 * 3) Responsibility of medical staff (nurse)
 * 4) Medical responsibility (negligente)
 * 5) Medical secret
 * 6) Informed consent with treatment

Principles of Forensic Medicine

 * 1) Organization of courts and prosecutions, their main tasks
 * 2) The framework of medico-legal services
 * 3) Medico-legal expert evidence
 * 4) Physician as eye witness
 * 5) Physician as expert witness

Post-mortem chenges

 * 1) Proof of death
 * 2) Post-mortem changes
 * 3) Early post-mortem changes
 * 4) Cooling post-mortem
 * 5) Hypostasis
 * 6) Rigor mortis
 * 7) Autolysis
 * 8) Adipocire
 * 9) Mummification
 * 10) Estimation of time since death

Identification of living and deceased

 * 1) Identification
 * 2) Odontological identification
 * 3) Identification of remnants of a dead body
 * 4) Identification - forensic anthropology
 * 5) Examination of living persons
 * 6) Examination of dead body
 * 7) Examination of the scene of death at homicide
 * 8) Examination of the scene of death at suicide

Medical aspect of death

 * 1) Autopsy: types, protocol, diagnosis
 * 2) Types of autopsies
 * 3) Vital reaction
 * 4) Certification of death
 * 5) Exhumation

Death from natural causes

 * 1) Sudden death
 * 2) Sudden death during pregnancy, during & after the delivery
 * 3) Sudden death of nursing-child and children

Bodily harm

 * 1) Evaluation of seriousness of an injury
 * 2) Infliction of bodily harm
 * 3) Grievous bodily harm
 * 4) Illness from injury
 * 5) Injury caused by cold: hypothermia
 * 6) Burning & scalding
 * 7) Injuries by electrical current
 * 8) Lightning
 * 9) Blunt injury: contusions, abrasions, lacerations
 * 10) Clubbing to the death
 * 11) Firearm injury
 * 12) Blast injuries
 * 13) Machinery injuries
 * 14) Transportation accidents
 * 15) Railway accidents
 * 16) Sport and physical exercise accidents
 * 17) Snow-slide trauma
 * 18) Self-inflicted injury, mutilation
 * 19) Slashed (cut) wounds
 * 20) Incised wounds
 * 21) Stab wounds
 * 22) Bite marks
 * 23) Skull fractures
 * 24) Brain contusion
 * 25) Epidural haemorrhage
 * 26) Subdural haemorrhage
 * 27) Spine fractures
 * 28) Fall from height
 * 29) Chest trauma
 * 30) Abdominal trauma
 * 31) Tumors and injury

Asphyxia

 * 1) Asphyxia – generally (pathophysiology, types and general pathomorphology signs).
 * 2) Suffocation
 * 3) Smothering
 * 4) Strangulation
 * 5) Manual strangulation
 * 6) Hanging
 * 7) Choking
 * 8) Traumatic asphyxia
 * 9) Drowning

Sexual assault

 * 1) Illegal abortion: mechanical and chemical manner
 * 2) Artificial abortion
 * 3) Infanticide (mother's newborn homicide)
 * 4) Paternity estimation
 * 5) Unusual fulfill of sexual instinct
 * 6) Sexual misuse
 * 7) Rape

Evidence analysis

 * 1) Analysis of blood stains
 * 2) Analysis of semen stains
 * 3) Analysis of stains of biological origin (stool, amniotic fluid, saliva)
 * 4) Analysis of hair

Miscellaneous

 * 1) Tetanus
 * 2) Evaluation & compensation for handicap
 * 3) Compensation of pain
 * 4) Filling up of the body
 * 5) Simulation v. dissimulation
 * 6) Withheld of the first aid
 * 7) Warfare compounds

Toxicology

 * 1) Definition of a poison
 * 2) Effect of a poison
 * 3) Diagnosis of intoxication
 * 4) Intoxication by acids
 * 5) Intoxication by alkali
 * 6) Arsenic (As)
 * 7) Carbon monoxide (CO)
 * 8) Proof of carbon monoxide in blood
 * 9) Cyanides (CN)
 * 10) Lead (Pb)
 * 11) Nitrites (compounds of NO2, NO3)
 * 12) Nitrobenzene
 * 13) Barium (Ba)
 * 14) Mercury (Hg)
 * 15) Atropine
 * 16) Chinine
 * 17) Nicotine
 * 18) Strychnine
 * 19) Digitalis and strophantine
 * 20) Cantaridine
 * 21) Ergot (cockle)
 * 22) Opium
 * 23) Tetrachlormethan
 * 24) Trichloroethylene
 * 25) Ethanol
 * 26) Blood ethanol analysis
 * 27) Drunkenness and its evaluation
 * 28) Methanol
 * 29) Benzodiazepines
 * 30) Drugs in psychopharmacology
 * 31) Insecticides
 * 32) Snake venoms
 * 33) Mushroom intoxication
 * 34) Health impairment by food