Forensic science is an interdisciplinary science that combines medicine and law.
Forensic medicine is a kind of national judicial appraisal personnel, and it is also an indispensable core personnel in the public security department. Compared with clinicians who only focus on living medicine, China's forensic professionals will "death medicine" ” combined with “vital medicine”.
Forensic medicine uses basic medicine, clinical medicine, criminal science technology and forensic identification technology to investigate, identify and identify corpses (cadavers, spirits) and crime scenes involved in criminal cases.
Although forensic medicine belongs to medicine, there is an essential difference between forensic medicine and medicine. Doctors trained in medicine mainly operate on people in hospitals to treat illnesses and save lives; forensic medicine mainly serves the law, among which autopsy is The most important research object, the main purpose is to determine the cause of death, infer the time of death, and provide clues and evidence for investigation and trial.
When it comes to forensic science, the first thing that most people think of is probably working with corpses. In fact, there are many branches of forensic science now. Some of these disciplines require contact with corpses, and some do not require contact with corpses.
Forensic medicine is a five-year program. In the first four years, you mainly study basic medicine, clinical medicine courses and nearly ten forensic medicine courses in school, such as forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, forensic evidence, forensic psychiatry, Forensic appraisal, procedural law and investigation courses, etc. In the final year, students will undergo an internship to hone their identification skills through exposure to the actual working environment of forensic medicine.