New Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine

From: Clinical Medicine | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

The Royal College of Physicians of London has recently established a new Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, a development of major importance to the specialty.1 The Faculty will set standards and offer education and training to a branch of the medical profession that, in the past, has evolved without the formal support of a medical royal college.

Forensic medicine embraces a branch of medicine where medical expertise is brought to bear on the criminal justice system, and is practised by forensic physicians (formerly police surgeons or forensic medical examiners), forensic pathologists, ...

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