Forensic Medicine

The department of FORENSIC MEDICINE is situated at the Fourth Floor of the College Building. There are three faculty rooms (one each for Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor), one room for the Tutors of size 15 sq. mt., and two demonstration rooms measuring 16 sq. mt. in size with a capacity for 80 students each, a library-cum-seminar room with accommodation of 30 sq. mt. area, containing several books and journals of Forensic Medicine. The department has a laboratory of 200 Sq. mt. area for examination of specimens, tests, Forensic histopathology, Serology, Anthropology and Toxicology and one preparation room. The main attraction of this department is its museum of size 175 sq.mt. area which houses 90 different types of weapons including prototype firearms displayed on a wooden board with glass front door, 152 different poisons arranged system-wise, 37 laminated wall hanging charts, skeletons and bones of different ages, 144 photographs, 41 models displayed on specially arranged tables, 28 mounted specimens, with 17 number of different catalogues.

The new Autopsy Block of size approx. 400 Sq. mt. area is under construction which is expected to be ready by the next year) is adjacent to the hospital on the eastern side. It will be a landmark for the college and the Union Territory of Puducherry. It will have facilities for two cold storage (six body cooling chamber each), for cadavers, ante-rooms, washing facilities, one demonstration room with an accommodation capacity of 50 students, with state of the art audio-visual aids, a waiting hall with attached toilet, office etc. The autopsy block will have two autopsy tables with video camera link to the demonstration room for students to observe post-mortem at one time. The autopsy block will have an open lawn and a landscape garden.