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Introduction and Scope of Forensic Medicine Multiple-Choice Questions

 

Question 1. Medical jurisprudence means:

  1. Knowledge of medicine required for lawyers
  2. Knowledge of law required for doctors for medical practice
  3. Knowledge of medicine required for doctors
  4. Knowledge of law required for legal practice

Answer:  2. Knowledge of law required for doctors for medical practice

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Question  2. “Medical etiquette” deals with:

  1. The conventional laws of the courtesy observed between members of the medical profession
  2. Legal responsibilities of the physician
  3. The study and application of the effcts of violence or unnatural disease in its various forms
  4. The moral principles which should guide members of the medical profession in their dealings.

Answer:  1. The conventional laws of the courtesy observed between members of the medical profession

 

The Indian Legal System Multiple Choice Questions

Question  1. Police Inquest is not applicable in one of the following deaths:

  1. Hanging
  2. Rape and murder
  3. Murder
  4. Dowry related deaths

Answer:  4. Dowry related deaths

Question  2. All are cognizable offnces, except:

  1. Rape
  2. Murder
  3. Attempted suicide
  4. Upraise against the state

Answer:  3. Attempted suicide

Question  3. Following are true of corners court, except:

  1. Court of trial
  2. No power to impose fie
  3. Contempt of court punishable
  4. Accused need not be present

Answer:  1. Court of trial

Question  4. IPC is:

  1. Procedure for investigation
  2. Code for punishment
  3. Both
  4. None

Answer:  2. Code for punishment

Question  5. ‘Prima facia’ means:

  1. Body of evidence
  2. First offir who faces the crime scene
  3. Primary substantial evidence of crime
  4. Primary substantial evidence to disprove the prosecution

Answer:  3. Primary substantial evidence of crime

Question  6. Volunteering a statement can be done by:

  1. Eye witness
  2. Medical witness
  3. Hostile witness
  4. Investigation offir

Answer:  2. Medical witness

Question  7. If a person survives after making a dying declaration, then it stands as:

  1. Invalid
  2. Valid for 48 hours
  3. Corroborative evidence
  4. None of the above

Answer:  3. Corroborative evidence

Question  8. The most important duty of a physician while recording a dying declaration is:

  1. To record the evidence, as he tells
  2. To maintain life
  3. To certify the mental state of the individual
  4. To sign as a witness

Answer: 3.  To certify the mental state of the individual

Question  9. Juvenile court is presided by:

  1. First-class women magistrate
  2. Second-class women magistrate
  3. First-class magistrate of any sex
  4. Any of the above

Answer: 3. First-class women magistrate

Question  10. Oral evidence carries more value than documentary evidence because:

  1. It is preferable to hear than to read
  2. It is easy to comprehend
  3. The witness can be cross examined
  4. The witness cannot turn hostile

Answer:  3. The witness can be cross examined

Question  11. Evidence given to the court where the witness has not witnessed the act, but came to know about it through someone else is called:

  1. Secondary evidence
  2. Impersonal evidence
  3. Hearsay evidence
  4. Circumstantial evidence

Answer:  3. Hearsay evidence

Question  12. Summons case is a case in which:

  1. The witness is summoned to the court
  2. Maximum punishment is 2 years
  3. Maximum punishment is 7 years
  4. A warrant cannot be issued

Answer:  2. Maximum punishment is 2 years

Question  13. True regarding dying deposition:

  1. Statement recorded in the presence of the accused
  2. Can be recorded by the police offir
  3. Is inferior to dying deposition
  4. It is common practice in India

Answer:  1.  Statement recorded in the presence of the accused

Question  14. Punishment can be awarded on failure to obey summons in:

  1. All types of summons
  2. Only in civil cases
  3. Only in criminal cases
  4. Only in summons from the high court

Answer:  1. All types of summons

Question  15. An arrested person can request for medical examination to prove his innocence under:

  1. 53 CrPC
  2. 54 CrPC
  3. 174 CrPC
  4. 176 CrPC

Answer:  2. 54 CrPC

Question  16. Perjury means:

  1. Breaking the Oath
  2. Speaking only the truth
  3. Submitting a document
  4. Not attending the court

Answer:  1. Breaking the Oath

Question  17. Re-examination is done by:

  1. Lawyer conducting the main examination
  2. Lawyer conducting cross examination
  3. Presiding offir of the court
  4. None of the above

Answer:  1. Lawyer conducting the main examination

Question  18. Powers of 1st class judiciary magistrate:

  1. Imprisonment up to 5 years and fie up to ` 1 lakh
  2. Imprisonment up to 3 years and fie up to ` 10,000
  3. Imprisonment up to 3 years and fie up to ` 5,000
  4. Imprisonment up to 1 year and fie up to ` 1,000

Answer:  2. Imprisonment up to 3 years and fie up to ` 10,000

Question  19. Hostile witness is:

  1. Willful utterance of falsehood under oath
  2. Contradicts his own statement, given in the court
  3. It is punishable under Sec 193 IPC.
  4. Conduct money is paid to the witnesses

Answer:  2. Contradicts his own statement, given in the court

Question  20. Oral evidence is an exception in all the following, except:

  1. Chemical examiner’s report
  2. Deposition of a doctor in a lower court
  3. Dying declaration
  4. Postmortem report

Answer:  4. Postmortem report

Question  21. Conduct money is paid to the witness along with the summons from:

  1. Additional district magistrate court
  2. Principal sessions court
  3. Additional claims tribunal court
  4. Human rights court

Answer: 3. Additional claims tribunal court

Question  22. Leading questions are allowed in:

  1. Chief examination
  2. Cross-examination
  3. Re-examination
  4. Court questions

Answer:  2. Cross examination

Question  23. Consider the following statements:

1. In India every state has go a high court
2. Judges of high court are appointed by the governor of the state

  1. 1 is correct
  2. 2 is correct
  3. Both 1 and 2 correct
  4. Neither 1 nor 2 is correct

Answer:  4. Neither 1 nor 2 is correct

Question  24. Consider the following statements:

1 . The Consumer Protection Act (CPA. applies to all goods, but not any services.
2. The CPA provides for establishing four-tier consumer dispute redressal machinery at the national, state, district and block levels
which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. 1 only
  2. 2 only
  3. Both 1 and 2
  4. Neither 1or 2

Answer:  4. Neither 1or 2

 

Medical Ethics And The Law Multiple Choice Questions

 

Question  1. The oldest code of medical ethics is:

  1. Declaration of Geneva
  2. Declaration of Helsinki
  3. Hippocratic Oath
  4. Declaration of Sydney

Answer:  3. Hippocratic Oath

Question  2. The following are the functions of IMC, except

  1. Regulation of medical education
  2. Recognition of medical degrees
  3. Maintains the medical register
  4. Disciplinary action

Answer:  4. Disciplinary action

Question  3. Disclosure of illness to the following amounts to violation of professional secrecy:

  1. Recruiting authorities of uniformed services
  2. Licensing authority for driving
  3. Life insurance company
  4. Prison authority

Answer:  4. Prison authority

Question  4. The following are certain rights of the RMP, except:

  1. Choose their patient
  2. Use of Red Cross emblem
  3. Prescribe and dispense drugs
  4. Use title and qualifiation

Answer:  2. Use of Red Cross emblem

Question  5. “Professional Death Sentence” is a term which denotes:

  1. Capital punishment (Judicial hanging)
  2. Rigorous punishment
  3. Severe warning
  4. Permanent removal of name from the medical register

Answer:  4. Permanent removal of name from the medical register

Question  6. In India, Euthanasia has got:

  1. Legal status
  2. No legal sanction
  3. Legal sanction in some special conditions
  4. Legal sanction only in cancer

Answer:  2. No legal sanction

Question  7. Infamous conduct comprises of all, except:

  1. Adultery
  2. Advertising
  3. Procuring criminal abortion
  4. Examination of a patient without consent

Answer:  4. Examination of a patient without consent

Question  8. Privileged communication is between:

  1. Doctor and patient
  2. Doctor and medical council
  3. Doctor and court
  4. Doctor and police

Answer:  3. Doctor and court

Question  9. A person voluntarily acting like having a disease is said to be:

  1. Hypochondriac
  2. Masochist
  3. Munchausen syndrome
  4. Malingerer

Answer:  4. Malingerer

Question  10. In a comatose patient, removal of life support is:

  1. Active euthanasia
  2. Passive euthanasia
  3. Voluntary euthanasia
  4. Involuntary euthanasia

Answer:  2. Passive euthanasia

Question  11. Falanga is:

  1. Sitting in abnormal position
  2. Hitting the feet with stick
  3. Electric current for torture
  4. Pulling of hair

Answer:  2. Hitting the feet with stick

Question  12. Dichotomy refers to:

  1. Fee splitting
  2. Study of structure of plants
  3. A branch of anatomy
  4. An ultramicroscopic study of tissues

Answer:  1. Fee splitting

Question 13. Schedule that recognize medical qualifiations awarded by institutions in India:

  1. Schedule I
  2. Schedule II
  3. Schedule III Part I
  4. Schedule III Part II

Answer:  1. Schedule I

Question  14. Declaration of Helsinki is about

  1. Organ transplantation
  2. Torture
  3. Human experimentation
  4. Code of ethics

Answer:  3. Human experimentation

Question  15. Prohibition of participation in torture by a doctor comes under:

  1. Declaration of Tokyo
  2. Declaration of Helsinki
  3. Declaration of Oslo
  4. Declaration of Geneva

Answer:  1. Declaration of Tokyo

 

Medical Negligence Multiple Choice Questions

 

Question  1. Consent is not a must in:

  1. Examination of victim of sodomy
  2. Examination of a drunken person
  3. Examination of an accused of dacoity
  4. Testing blood for malaria

Answer:  3. Examination of an accused of dacoity

Question  2. In case of an unconscious person requiring emergency surgery, there are no relatives to give consent then, the doctor should:

  1. Operate without consent
  2. Operate with the consent of the police
  3. Wait for the relatives to come
  4. Operate with the consent of Medical Superintendent of the hospital

Answer:  1. Operate without consent

Question  3. Which of the following is the best form of consent obtained for an operation?

  1. Verbal consent
  2. Implied consent
  3. Guardian informed consent
  4. Written informed consent

Answer:  4. Written informed consent

Question  4. A doctor while examining the patient without consent in an emergency is protected under:

  1. Section 87 IPC
  2. Section 89 IPC
  3. Section 90 IPC
  4. Section 92 IPC

Answer:  4. Section 92 IPC

Question 5. When a patient dies due to some unintentional act during treatment by a doctor or agent of a doctor in the hospital:

  1. Therapeutic privilege
  2. Therapeutic misadventure
  3. Vicarious liability
  4. Error of judgment

Answer:  2.Therapeutic misadventure

Question  6. All are true regarding criminal negligence, except:

  1. Trial is by criminal court
  2. Can be imprisoned
  3. Consent for the act is a good defense
  4. Guilt should be proved beyond doubt

Answer:  3. Consent for the act is a good defense

Question  7. All the following are examples of Res ipsa loquitur except:

  1. Death on the operation table
  2. A forceps left over in the abdomen during surgery
  3. Twenty barbiturate tablets found in the stomach at autopsy
  4. Operation on the wrong limb

Answer:  1. Death on the operation table

Question  8. Novus actus interveniens is:

  1. An unrelated action intervening
  2. The thing speaks for itself
  3. Calculated risk doctrine
  4. Assisting unqualifid persons in the treatment of patients

Answer: 1.  An unrelated action intervening

Question  9. Under Consumer Protection Act complaints has to be filed within:

  1. 3 months
  2. 6 months
  3. 1 year
  4. 2 years

Answer: 4.  2 years

Question  10. A plaintif is a person who:

  1. Files the complaint
  2. He is the assailant
  3. He is the defendant
  4. He is the public prosecutor

Answer:  1. Files the complaint

Question  11. The burden of proof lies with the doctor in cases of:

  1. Mens rea
  2. Res judicata
  3. Res ipsa loquitur
  4. Respondent superior

Answer:  2. Res ipsa loquitur

Question  12. Contributory negligence is related to:

  1. Egg shell rule
  2. Master-servant rule
  3. Common knowledge rule
  4. Avoidable consequences rule

Answer:  4. Avoidable consequences rule

Question  13. Doctrine of common knowledge is a variant of:

  1. Medical maloccurrence
  2. Novus actus interveniens
  3. Res ipsa loquitur
  4. Calculated risk doctrine

Answer:  3. Res ipsa loquitur

Question 14. Vicarious responsibility pertains to:

  1. Patient’s contribution towards negligence
  2. Hospitals contribution towards patient’s damage
  3. Responsibility for action of a colleague.
  4. Responsibility of senior for actions of junior

Answer: 3.  Responsibility of senior for actions of junior

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