Head of the of Forensic Medicine and Law Department, Candidate of Medicine G. K. Petrova

 

Address: 83, 2255, (O.Annayev) Street, 2nd floor, room 3145, Ashgabat

Phone: (+99312) 73-98-47 

e-mail: tdlutm@tdlu.edu.tm 

 

The Forensic Medicine Department was established in 1937, which is directly connected with the development of forensic medical examination in Turkmenistan and its activities have been worthily appreciated at the state level.

Educational and research work at the department is carried out at the base of the Central Forensic Medical Institution of Turkmenistan.

 

 

 

 

Teaching students in the discipline "Forensic Medicine" is conducted at senior courses, and the discipline "Law" is studied by the first- year students of all faculties. When conducting practical classes, visual aids, video materials on certain topics of the educational and methodological complex are used, outpatient reception of victims and autopsy of corpses are carried out at the base of the Central Forensic Medical Institution of Turkmenistan. The assistants of the department participate in conducting forensic medical examinations.

 

 

Classrooms and lecture-hall of the department are connected with dissecting room by means of direct videoconferencing, which allows demonstrating the autopsy directly to the classrooms.

 

 

The teaching staff of the department has published 5 textbooks, "Normative Documents for Conducting Forensic Medical Examination of Corpses and Living Persons", over 70 methodological and teaching aids have been developed. "Medical Manual for Forensic Doctors" in the state language has been prepared for publication.

 The research work of the department is carried out on the following topics: "Sudden death in coronary heart disease and some endocrine diseases", "The importance of forensic medical examinations on professional offenses of medical workers in improving the quality of medical care to the population", "Changes in microstructural and electrolyte composition in internal organs in acute and chronic morphine poisoning". As a result of the research, over 200 scientific articles have been published, over 20 scientific and methodological aids and 10 proposals have been prepared, 1 doctoral and 4 candidate dissertations have been defended.