Forensic autopsy. Basic guidelines for making up autopsy report educational aid

Abstract

The methodic recommendations are assigned for the students of 4-th course for medical and pediatric faculties for the active study and optimum learning forensic medicine in the Zaporozye State Medical University in accordance with the requirements of "Program of the forensic medicine". Autopsy reports are medicolegal documents that not only report the anatomic findings of the postmortem examination but which also provide detailed clinicopathologic correlations. Anything less greatly diminishes the value and utility of the autopsy examination. The performance of an autopsy has barely changed in the past 100 years, but it is precisely this clinicopathologic correlation - and the questions that only an autopsy can answer - which ensures the procedure its place in the practice of medicine.