Examination questions
Study branch: Dental Medicine
Subject: Forensic Medicine and Medicine Law
Year of study: 4th
Term: winter
1. What is forensic medicine?
2. Doctors at the scene of crime
3. The nature and definitions of death
4. Stages of the dying process
5. Death certification
6. Medico-legal investigation of deaths
7. The autopsy and its function
8. The early changes after death
9. The estimation of the time of death
10. Post-mortem decomposition
11. Identification of the living and dead
12. Identity from teeth (forensic dentistry, odontology)
13. Blood stains and groups
14. Identification by DNA profiling
15. The examination of wounds: abrasions, bruises, contusions, lacerations
16. The examination of wounds: incised wounds, punching, kicking, defence injuries
17. Identity from bite marks
18. Head injuries: intracranial haemorrhage, brain damage
19. Head injuries: scalp injuries, skull fractures
20. Injuries of the orofacial region
21. Neck, spinal, chest and abdominal injuries
22. Firearm and explosive injuries
23. Murder, suicide or accident?
24. Road traffic injuries: pedestrians
25. Road traffic injuries: car occupants, motor cycle and cycle injuries
26. Railway injuries, aircraft fatalities, mass disasters
27. Obstructive asphyxia: suffocation (smothering), choking (gagging), aspiration of food
28. Pressure on the neck: reflex cardiac arrest, „throttling“, ligature strangulation, hanging. Traumatic asphyxia
29. Immersion and drowning
30. Effects of injury: haemorrhage, infection, embolism, ARDS
31. Sudden death from natural causes: cardiovascular system
32. Sudden death from natural causes: intracranial vascular lesions and epilepsy, respiratory system and asthma, gastrointestinal system, gynecological conditions
33. Thermal injuries: scalds, burning, hypothermia
34. Electrical injury and death from lightning
35. The doctors’s duty in the examination of sexual offences
36. General aspects of poisoning: accidental, suicidal and homicidal poisoning. The toxic and fatal dose, tolerance and idiosyncrasy
37. The doctor’s duty in suspected poisoning
38. Samples required for toxicological analysis
39. Alcohol: sources, absorption, elimination, measurement, effects
40. Drinking and driving: scheme of examination for impairment of ability to drive
41. Drugs of dependence and abuse: tolerance, dependence and withdrawal symptoms
42. The dangers of drug dependence
43. Heroin, morphine and other opioids. Barbiturates and other hypnotics
44. Amphetamines, cocaine, cannabis, LSD, solvent abuse
45. Medicinal poisons
46. Corrosive and metallic poisons
47. Agro-chemical poisons
48. Gaseous poisons
49. Miscellaneous poisons: strychnin, halogenated hydrocarbons, gasoline and kerosene,
the glycols, nicotine
50. Medical malpractice
51. The doctor as witness in court
52. Medical reports and statements
53. Neglect, starvation and abuse of human rights
54. The ethics of medical practice: medical confidentiality, consent to medical treatment
Prof. Assist. N. Bobrov, MD, CSc.
Head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine