Forensic medicine brings the investigative capabilities of modern medicine to the aid of law and justice. Here students will have to apply their knowledge of the various sciences to the human body.
Forensic medicine today is a large medical field that includes many subareas. However, generally, when one speaks or thinks about it, one associates it immediately with death, autopsies, and related problems. Yet, this is only part of legal medicine, as new approaches and subspecialties are realized because of the advances in medical sciences and sociopolitical changes around the world. Forensic anthropology and clinical forensic medicine are perhaps the best examples of these “new sciences.”