📘Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

⚖️ Forensic Medicine

🔹 Forensic Medicine — Firearm Injuries

• Describe wound ballistics and its types.
• Define the important terms used in firearm injuries.
• Describe the types of bullets.
• Explain the basic mechanism of firearms.
• Explain the ranges of fire in firearm injuries.
• Explain the beveling phenomenon.
• Describe firearm wound-production mechanisms.
• Identify the types of gunpowder and ammunition used.
• Interpret the findings of injuries produced by different weapons.
• Explain the distinguishing patterns of firearm entry and exit wounds.
• Explain the information that may be inferred from examination of a firearm entry wound.

🔹 Forensic Medicine — Injuries Caused by Explosives

• Describe the mechanisms by which bomb blasts produce injuries.
• Explain the different causes of death in blast injuries.
• Interpret autopsy findings in explosion fatalities.

🔹 Forensic Medicine — Thermal Injuries

• Describe thermal injuries.
• Classify thermal injuries.
• Describe burns and scalds.

🔹 Forensic Medicine — Electrical Injuries

• Explain electrocution.
• Describe the types of electrical injuries.
• Describe postmortem findings in electrical fatalities.
• Explain injuries caused by lightning.