The Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology started functioning in year 1980 with the establishment of Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences. The primary objective of the department is to impart the legal knowledge through teaching and training of undergraduate as well as postgraduate medical students. The Department of Forensic Medicine is currently providing training in subject specialty of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology to Undergraduate students in 2nd & 3rd year MBBS and also for Postgraduate students. MD in forensic medicine was started in the year 2002. We have Four seats per year recognized by NATIONAL MEDICAL COMMISSION. Many postgraduate students who have successfully completed their MD degree from KIMS are currently working in different medical colleges across India and foreign countries. Postgraduates are regularly trained in conducting medico-legal work, deposing evidence in various courts, teaching learning methods, research activities etc.
MEDICOLEGAL WORKThe department was accorded the permission to perform medico-legal work from the Government of Karnataka in the year 1993 and was one of the first few private medical colleges in the country to take up the responsibility of medico legal work. Since then it is providing service to society and investigating authority by performing medico legal work concerned with 23 police stations of city of South Bangalore. The medico legal work will be conducted at Mortuary block which is situated at KIMS hospital campus.
A well experienced, trained and qualified team of experts are conducting medico legal work. The Mortuary has three autopsy tables with necessary postmortem instruments. The department is conducting around 900 medico legal cases per year concerned with south Bangalore. The cold storage facility is available to preserve ten dead bodies. It has a gallery for students to witness postmortem examination, rooms for clinical forensic medicine case examination, faculty rooms, police inquest room, waiting hall, records room, office and a library.The department is recognized by the Government of Karnataka to conduct medico legal autopsies. Department of Forensic Medicine, KIMS, was one of the first few private medical colleges in the country to take up the responsibility of Medicolegal work, including Medicolegal Postmortems, as early as 1993. The Bangalore city police are utilizing our postmortem and other medico legal services in cases pertaining to twelve police stations of Bangalore south.