MODULAR QUIZZER IN LEGAL MEDICINE

Please fill up properly this module. This is due on October 20, 2020. Your
performance in this module shall be credited in your prelims. Print this and write
your answers handwritten. We will discuss the answers on October 27, 2020.

1. Discuss the difference(s) between an ordinary physician and a medico legal

officer.
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2. Discuss the methods of identification of persons.

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3. Enumerate the scientific methods of identification of persons and its advantages.

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4. How do we conduct the following in aid of medico legal investigation:

a. Fingerprinting –
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b. Dental examination –
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c. Handwriting –
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d. Identification of skeleton –
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e. Determination of age and sex –
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f. Identification of blood stains –
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g. Identification of hair, hair fibers –
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5. When do we say a person is already dead?

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6. What are the indications/signs that a person is dead?

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7. Give the rules in the presumption of death and, briefly, the rules in survivorship.
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8. State the stages of medico legal investigation.

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9. What do you mean by autopsy?

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10. Who are authorized to conduct autopsy?

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11. When can autopsy be conducted?

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12. What are the causes of death?

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13. Give the kinds of death.
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14. What are the classification of violent deaths under the Revised Penal Code?
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15. What is the importance or bearing of the time of death in medico legal
investigation?
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16. What do you mean by gunshot wounds?

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17. Describe entrance and exit wounds.

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18. When is gunshot wound considered homicidal, suicidal and accidental?

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19. What is asphyxia?

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20. What are the causes of asphyxia? Explain each cause.

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21. When do you say if asphyxia results from homicidal, suicidal and accidental
causes?
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22. What are physical injuries?

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23. Give the causes of physical injuries.

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24. What are the classifications of wounds? Give example for each classification.
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25. Give the importance(s) why there is need to classify wounds.

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26. What are the types of wounds?

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27. What are the crimes that involve severity of physical injuries under the Revised
Penal Code?
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28. Differentiate contusion from post-mortem hypostasis.

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29. Differentiate contusion vs. hematoma.

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30. Distinguish stab wounds, incised wounds, lacerated wounds and abrasions from
one other.
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31. When is a wound considered homicidal, suicidal and accident?

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32. What are the fatal effects of wounds?

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33. Define hemorrhage.

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34. Give the factors affecting the healing of wounds.

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35. Distinguish Ante Mortem Wounds from Post Mortem Wounds.

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36. Give the possible instruments that may be used in inflicting wounds.
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37. Give the importance of the locations of the wound to medico legal
investigation.
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38. What are causes of death out of thermal injuries?

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39. Give the effects of lightning and electricity to the body of a person.
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40. Give the effects of change in atmospheric pressure to the accelerated death of a
person.
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41. Discuss death resulting from automotive crash.

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42. State the effects of negligence to the death of a person.

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43. Provide the methods of disposal of the body.

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44. Give the grounds for reprimand, suspension or revocation of registration

certificate of a physician practicing medicine.
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45. What are the rights of a physician and a patient under Code of Medical Ethics
in Relation with Medical Acts of 1959 as Amended?
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