Ethics, Legal Medicine & Forensic Pathology

Ethics and the medical practitioner; biomedical advances, ethics and the law; the origins and divisions of law and the law relating to homicide; courts of law in Australia; court procedures and expert evidence; registration and deregistration of medical practitioners; the professional liability of legally qualified medical practitioners; the certification of death and the law; human tissue transplantation and the law; medical practitioners and the coroner; legal aspects of sexual offences and related matters; anatomical dissection and post-mortem examination; sudden unexpected "natural" death in adults; accidental and sudden unexpected death in childhood and infancy; the examination and interpretation of injuries; head injury and intracranial haemorrhage; injuries due to firearms; asphyxia including drowning and carbon monoxide inhalation; thermal injury and death; forensic radiology; identification procedures I - mass disasters, forensic odontology and forensic osteology; identification procedures II - blood, body tissues and secretions, molecular biology and disputed parentage; the social, medical and legal aspects of alcohol; drugs and poisoning; noxious Australian land and marine animals.