FACULTY OF FORENSIC MEDICINE

The Faculty of Forensic Medicine was established in 1985 on the basis of the Department of Forensic Medicine which was succeeded from the Department of Legal Medicine created by Manshuu Medical University. Now the faculty is one of the important institutions for high-level education in forensic medicine in China.

Departments

The faculty consists of 5 departments: the Department of Forensic Pathology, Department of Forensic Serology, Department of Clinical Forensic Medicine, Department of Forensic Chemistry, Department of Forensic Anthropology, and Deparment of Law. In addition, 10 teaching facilities for graduate medico-legal practice have been founded in Zhangjiakou, Changchun, Qiqihaer, Shenyang, Dalian and elsewhere. The faculty is authorized to confer Master and Doctor Degree in Medicine in medico-legal discipline. Among 45 staff members of the faculty, there are 5 professors, 10 associate professors, 16 assistant professors, and 3 assistants.

Courses

Students specialized in forensic medicine attend 5-year courses and grasp the essential theories and techniques of clinical and medico-legal medicine. They will be trained to be the high-level forensic personnel who dedicate to expertise, teaching and basic research in the medico-legal field. After graduation, the students are assigned to work at public security bureau, procuratorates, courts or medical universities. The 5-year course programme initiated from 1979. In the last semester, 10 speciality courses are delivered, such as the Introduction to Forensic Medicine, Forensic Pathology, Forensic Serology, Clinical Forensic Medicine, Theory on Medico-legal Expertise, Forensic Chemistry, Forensic Anthropology, Judicial Psychiatry, and Criminalistics, etc. After finishing all the courses, the students participate in graduate medico-legal practice for 15 weeks. Bachelor Degree in Medicine is confered on the eligibles. Advanced studies or continuing education is also undertaken for the on-the-job forensic practitioners throughout the country.

Academic Activities

19 scientific projects have been supported financially by grants-in-aid from provincial or national foundations since the establishment of the faculty. The leading accomplishments in researches have been achieved in our country in the studies on the experimental blunt cardiac trauma and cerebral injuries, the applications of human genetic markers to the medico-legal investigations and paternity tests, the mechanisms leading to visual and hearing dysfunctions and assessment on severity of the injuries. the techniques of separation and extraction of the poisons as well as estimation of age and discrimination of sex using human bone tissue. Nearly 20 studies were awarded by provincial or state governments, and more than 300 papers were published in the national and international journals. Over 20 works including textbooks were published as editors or co-contributors. More than 4000 medico-legal case investigations were undertaken. The faculty has turned to be one of the leading medico-legal institutions in China.

To train personnel, the faculty has dispatched staff members to the developed countries such as Japan, United States of America, Britain and Australia for advanced studies or lecturing. Furthermore, specialists or scholars were invited from these countries to deliver lectures, which promoted development of the faculty and academic exchanges in the past decade.

Academic Leader

Bao-jie WANG, M.D., Ph.D., professor, the Faculty Dean, and doctoral mentor, Council Board Member of the Medico-legal Association of China, and the Vice Editor-in-Chief of the Chinese Journal of Forensic Medicine. Prof. Wang is mainly engaged in the studies on the applications of human genetic markers to the medico-legal case investigations and paternity tests and has undertaken 4 scientific projects supported by grants-in-aid by provincial and state governments, and published over 30 papers. One of his studies was awarded with the Second Degree Award for the Scientific and Technological Advancements by the state government.

Faculty of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University,
No. 92, Beier Road, Heping District, Shenyang 110001,
P.R. China
Telephone: +86-24-23256666-5413 (Ext) or +86-24-23267698
Fax: +86-24-23265539
E-mail: forensic@mail.cmu.edu.cn

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