Rapid Turnover of Medical Officers & Medico-Legal Training: Current

Medical officers are the backbone of medical services in our country and bulk of medico-legal work is done by them who are just medical graduates with no formal training in medico-legal work. The compulsory one year rural Govt. Service has created large turnover of new doctors that created large many issues related to medico-legal problems. Government is falling short of capacity for training a new recruited doctors every yearly. They have to perform medico-legal duty independently right from first day of appointment with no proper help and guidance from senior or expert This not only is most stressful situation for medical officers but also hampers the dispensing of justice. Curriculum of undergraduates too is not enough to give proper insight for medico-legal work in field. There is urgent necessity to for induction training of medical officer with special emphasis on medico-legal duties, regular CME's on medico-legal matters and regular recruitment of medical officer by service commission.