Avinash H Waghmode MBBS,MD is currently Professor and Head, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology,BKL Walawalkar Rural Medical College,Chiplun,Ratnagiri,Maharashtra.He is a PhD Scholar at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Sawangi Meghe, Wardha. He has given expert opinion in many high profile medicolegal cases during his tenure. He has to his credit many research papers published in national and international indexed journals. He has written a book entitled Comparison of CT Scan Findings with Autopsy Findings in Case of Head Injury Cases, and written two book chapters “Head injury”and “Hanging”published in New Frontiers in Medicine and Medical Research.
<h3 style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 13px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.35; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: Poppins, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.7px;">Salient Features</h3><ol style="margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 35px; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: initial; color: rgb(33, 37, 41); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", "Liberation Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; letter-spacing: 0.7px;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This handbook of OSPE in forensic medicine and toxicology is primarily intended for the undergraduate medical students as per the CBME Guidelines.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">It carries various photographs of postmortem changes, mechanical injury, weapons and poisons for the visual impact on the reader.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The handbook also presents some ideas and practices for the student how to study articles, models, instruments, pathological specimens and photographs of weapons of medicolegal importance.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">OSPE handbook is designed to enrich the learning experience of the second and third professional (Part 1) students in the subject of forensic medicine and provide a tool that will strengthen their foundations in the second and third phases of their medical-professional life.</li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The OSPE in the MBBS curriculum creates an opportunity for the students to correlate their learning in the subject with the clinical application. This will also provide them opportunity to undertake a project and enhance self-directed learning.</li></ol>