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The Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology at KLE University’s JN Medical College, Belgaum, Karnataka conducted a one day CME on MEDICOLEGAL PRACTICES for MEDICAL OFFICERS’ in May 2008. Medical officers working in peripheral health centers of Belgaum District were covered. About 100 medical officers from different talukas of Belgaum district attended the CME. The topics were presented by the faculty of our own department. It included ‘Examination and certification of cases of injury, victim & accused of sexual offences, drunkenness, Sample collection, preservation and dispatch in medicolegal cases, Medicolegal aspects of poisoning and Postmortem examination in detail’. Everybody who attended the CME appreciated it. To our surprise, veterans from nearby Ayurvedic Medical College who were present in the audience applauded it so much that they even invited one of our faculties to give a guest lecture on Examination of Sexual Offences Cases. All the delegates requested to have such CME every 6 months so that people in service get regularly refreshed and updated as well as those who join new in service get a first hand training in dealing medicolegal issues.
Arranging such CME’s/ Workshops/ Conferences for medical officers, who are the backbone of medicolegal services in our country, have been found to be much more helpful in bringing up the quality of medicolegal services. This has been proved with us because the interest these medical officers show after attending such CME/ Workshop/ Conference has been outstanding. It reflects in their attitude & work.
Inspector General of Police, Shri Raghavendra Auradker, Northern Range, Karnataka, who was the Chief Guest for our CME at Belgaum, applauded the efforts of the Department directed towards bringing a healthy change in improving medicolegal services in our country. One of our premier institutes engaged in medicolegal work has described postmortem examination as ‘DIRTY WORK’ which according to him was a sorry attitude towards our own work. He stressed that medicolegal work cannot be uplifted or given its due importance unless the people who practice it give respect to it. It was so humble on his part that at that very juncture, he invited the whole audience to ask any of their queries with regards to medicolegal issues and answered to all the queries thrown at him spontaneously.
The IGP also asked the department to hold such CME with participation of all police personnel of the district along with people from judiciary so that all the pillars of medicolegal work come together on single platform and discuss medicolegal issues at length. All the suggestions that would come out of such discussion should then be forwarded to concerned State and Central Government for implementation.
Arranging such CME’s/ Workshops/ Conferences for medical officers, who are the backbone of medicolegal services in our country, have been found to be much more helpful in bringing up the quality of medicolegal services. This has been proved with us because the interest these medical officers show after attending such CME/ Workshop/ Conference has been outstanding. It reflects in their attitude & work.
Inspector General of Police, Shri Raghavendra Auradker, Northern Range, Karnataka, who was the Chief Guest for our CME at Belgaum, applauded the efforts of the Department directed towards bringing a healthy change in improving medicolegal services in our country. One of our premier institutes engaged in medicolegal work has described postmortem examination as ‘DIRTY WORK’ which according to him was a sorry attitude towards our own work. He stressed that medicolegal work cannot be uplifted or given its due importance unless the people who practice it give respect to it. It was so humble on his part that at that very juncture, he invited the whole audience to ask any of their queries with regards to medicolegal issues and answered to all the queries thrown at him spontaneously.
The IGP also asked the department to hold such CME with participation of all police personnel of the district along with people from judiciary so that all the pillars of medicolegal work come together on single platform and discuss medicolegal issues at length. All the suggestions that would come out of such discussion should then be forwarded to concerned State and Central Government for implementation.
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