1Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, NKPSIMS&RC, Nagpur
2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, NKPSIMS&RC, Nagpur
3Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, NKPSIMS&RC, Nagpur
4Professor, Department of Biochemistry, NKPSIMS&RC, Nagpur
Online published on 27 July, 2017.
Autopsy is a research tool having a multi-factorial role in medical education and medical practice.
The present study is planned to assess the knowledge and attitude of medical students and interns towards medicolegal autopsy.
A cross-sectional and questionnaire-based study was conducted among 145 MBBS students and 155 interns who had witnessed medicolegal autopsy.
We observed that most of the participants possessed a reasonable knowledge and carried a positive attitude towards medicolegal autopsy. Source of knowledge for autopsy procedure was predominantly medical curriculum, 244 (81.3%) participants refused to specialize in Forensic Medicine and Toxicology.
We concluded that participant of present study emphasized the importance of medicolegal autopsy in medical education and medical autopsy should not be scrapped from medical curriculum.
Medicolegal autopsy, questionnaire-based study, medical students, interns, knowledge, attitude
