📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

⚖️ Forensic Medicine

Thanatology and Diagnosis of Death

• Define death and describe its phases.
• Describe the criteria used for diagnosis of death.
• Explain the importance of establishing the diagnosis of death.

Brain-Stem Death and Suspended Animation

• Describe the medicolegal aspects of brain-stem death.
• Describe the medicolegal aspects of suspended animation.

Cause, Mode, Manner and Mechanism of Death

• Define and differentiate cause, mode, manner and mechanism of death.
• Enlist the various methods used for disposal of a dead body.

Death Certification

• Describe the WHO format of the death certificate and the principles underlying documentation of cause of death.

Here I have deliberately not repeated “define cause of death” twice. KMU lists it once under Death and again under Death Certificate; AIM will cover it once comprehensively and then apply it to the WHO death-certificate framework.

The actual formulation/completion of a death certificate remains a psychomotor/OSCE-OSPE competency rather than part of this cognitive topic.