📘 Step 1. Curriculum Coverage

🔬 Pathology / 🩺 Medicine

• Alzheimer disease: aetiology and risk factors.
• Clinical features.
• Dementia and its types.
• Reversible and irreversible causes.

⚖️ Forensic Medicine

• Insanity: definition, classification and subtypes.
• Insanity and criminal responsibility.
• Pleas based on unsoundness of mind.
• McNaghten, Durham and impulse rules: application and criticism.
• True versus feigned insanity.
• Definition and scope of forensic psychiatry.
• Forensic psychiatric terminology.“Define/describe the forensic psychiatric terms: affect, confabulation, delirium, delusion, fugue, hallucination, illusion, intelligence quotient, lucid interval, neurosis, psychopath, psychosis, stupor and twilight states
• Mental disorders under the Mental Health Act.
• Admission/discharge principles.
• Handling of a wandering mentally ill person as described in the source.
• Testamentary capacity.
• Requirements for a valid will.
• Doctor’s role in a sick person’s will.
• Civil and criminal responsibility of mentally ill patients.