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Draft medico-legal curriculum released

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STRENGTHENING MEDICAL EDUCATION: B.P. Dubey (left), Executive Committee Member, Medical Council of India, with Rajiv Agarwal, Additional Secretary, Union Ministry of Justice, and N. Achyuth Rao, Commissioner of Police, Bangalore, at a workshop in Bangalore on Friday.

Bangalore: The draft of the restructured medico-legal curriculum for MBBS students, an initiative of the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement with support from the Union Ministry of Justice and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) was released here on Friday.

One of the major highlights of the restructured curriculum, which has to be approved by the Medical Council of India and Union Government before being introduced in the medical education system, is the introduction of new investigation techniques, application of technology, DNA fingerprinting and related technologies, bio-terrorism, virtual and simulated biopsies.

Releasing the draft curriculum, B.P. Dubey, executive committee member, Medical Council of India, said medico-legal work by doctors is often not up to the mark and incomplete because of the lack of awareness about collecting and presenting medico-legal evidence. “‘Forensic medicine’ as a discipline is being neglected and interest in this discipline among students is dwindling. Moreover, there is no system to disseminate updated knowledge,” he said.

He added that it needed to be seen how much of the draft could be incorporated in the actual curriculum.

Additional Secretary, Union Ministry of Justice, Rajiv Agarwal, said the Ministry and UNDP and Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement conducted a study on medico-legal awareness among doctors in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and were now planning to extend the study to seven more States.

Medical evidence is an important part of the criminal justice system and a curriculum that will properly guide medical graduates on this issue was necessary, he added.

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