Forensic Medicine for NEET PG

What Forensic Medicine covers

• Thanatology
• Identification
• Injuries and wounds
• Asphyxial deaths
• Toxicology
• Sexual offences and forensic psychiatry
• Medical law and ethics

A study map from the standard curriculum. Check the official bulletin for the authoritative topic list.

How to study it

1. 1

   Learn postmortem changes with their timelines, and toxicology as poison, sign, test and antidote.

2. 2

   Revise injury types by their defining feature, such as tissue bridges in lacerations.

3. 3

   Check current legal references. India's criminal laws were revised in 2024, so use up-to-date sources for sections.

Where students slip

• Using outdated legal section numbers.
• Mixing up the signs of different asphyxial deaths.

Where the Forensic Medicine practice questions concentrate

Our 890 worked Forensic Medicine questions fall into these areas, largest first. This shows what our practice set emphasises. It is not a prediction of the exam's weightage.

• Toxicology 169
• Identification 81
• Thanatology 72
• Asphyxial deaths 61
• Injuries 50
• Medical law 49
• Injuries and wounds 43
• Sexual offences and forensic psychiatry 41
• Medical law and ethics 29
• Forensic psychiatry 28
• Sexual offences 24
• Postmortem changes 22

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Four quick-revision cards

• What does Nysten's rule say?

  Rigor mortis appears in the eyelids and jaw first and spreads downward.

• What is cadaveric spasm?

  Instant muscle stiffening at death that fixes the last act, for instance grasping weeds in drowning.

• Cherry-red hypostasis suggests which poison?

  Carbon monoxide (carboxyhaemoglobin). Cyanide gives a pinkish hue.

• Mees' lines point to which poison?

  Arsenic (also thallium).

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