The
department started functioning since 1964,
Dr. Prof.Balaraman Nair MD as the HOD. Dr
V.K Jayapalan, Dr. B Umadethan, Dr.George
Paul, Dr.C.Radhakrishnan, Dr.Raja ,Dr. B A
Kabeer and Dr. S Girish were our eminent
teachers and HOD's. The department is
situated close to the OP block ,casuality
and the ward. The work in our department
consists of teaching performing medico
legal autopsies and other medico legal
cases, giving evidences in various courts
and giving consultancy service to the
police. The average number of
postmortem/year is around 1500/-.
Facilities
Available
I.
Facilities
Staff
: Professor one, Asso. Prof NIL, Assistant Prof 2,
Senior Lect: One and
Lectures - 2
The
department is having fairly good number of museum
specimens and other teaching aids photographs, charts,
slides and models required for teaching. The department
has amenties like a well equipped postmortem room,
laboratory good number of library books. From experience
it is seen that kottayam centre gets more number of murder
cases and sensational cases when compared with other
centres in kerala.
II.
Courses run by
the Department
Name
of Course
Annual
intake
MBBS
150
students
III.
Academic
Activities
Teaching
Medicolegal works like potency examination,
drunkeness examination ,
age
determination etc..
Training of PG students of MD pathology, DMLT,
Training to police officers
Journal Club
Radiology Club
Seminars for undergraduates on --- from 10.30 to 12
noon
Post Graduate
Discussions
IV.
Other Academic
Activities
Classes for
Investigating Officers in Police department.
V.
Continuing
Medical Education (CME's)
Increasing
trends of rape and sexual assault- Medicolegal and
psychiatric view point 2007.
Basic
Concept in Medical Research on 28th September 2010 from 9
- 5 pm
VI.
Conferences
Medical
officers are attending national conferences.
VII.
Any other
relevant information
Adequate
facilities are available in our department for undertaking
post graduate training . For the last few years we have
100% pass percentage for MBBS course with many
distinctions and first classes.
Teaching