Lucknow , UTTAR PRADESH :

Lucknow :

Coming to the aid of not just doctors, but also police, investigative agencies, judges, researchers, academicians and journalists interested in understanding the intricacies of criminology and science, a unique online course on forensic medicine has begun.

Created by an alumnus of King George’s Medical University, the one-of-itskind free of cost course is running in collaboration with the ministry of human resource development. Prof Adarsh Kumar, currently a forensic medicine professor at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, designed the course over a period of two and a half years.

The online course is divided meticulously into 15 weeks of study through multimedia enriched e-content, activities and assessments. Set up under the government’s self learning initiative ‘Swayam’, the course went live this month and will run till January 2018. “The course has been designed so that there are more forensic medicine experts in the county. Currently, we have only 15% experts against the number needed. They work in metro cities; the rest of the professional burden is transferred onto MBBS graduates. They are not well trained and get no time to take up a full time study of the field.

If they take it up, investigation into blood stains, rape cases, dental identification and the likes can be done with precision,” said Prof Kumar. He added that even non-medicos could try understanding the course.

While the content has been prepared by him, the course has been facilitated in collaboration with Delhi’s Khalsa College. Prof Kumar, who joined KGMU in 1987 for MBBS, worked in the field in Chandigarh for seven years before joining AIIMS, where he has now spent almost 12 years of teaching, study and research.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News> City News> Lucknow News> Schools & Colleges / TNN / October 30th, 2017