CHFM 32073 - Forensic Medicine

At the end of this module, the student should be able to,

  • Explain the basic concept of Forensic medicine and its importance
  • Explain legal and court procedures applicable to medico-legal and medical practice.
  • Perform medico-legal postmortem/autopsy findings and results of other relevant investigations for logical conclusion and framing the opinion on cause, manner and time since death.
  • Reserve and dispatch relevant various articles, trace evidences including viscera in poisoning cases in medico-legal cases/autopsy examination and handing over the same to appropriate agencies.
  •  Identify the medico-legal cases, carryout medical examination in such cases and prepare medico-legal report as per the law land.
  • Follow the code of ethics and be aware of duties and rights of medical professionals, duties towards patients and community, punishment on violation of code of ethics, various forms of medical negligence, and duties towards his professional colleagues. 

CHHE 32063 - Health and Epidemiology

At the end of this module, BAMS undergraduate student should be able to;

  • Describe and define basic bio-statistical methods, vital statistics and various methods that are used to collect vital statistics in Sri Lanka.
  • Describe and analyze the roles of the individuals, family, community and sociocultural milieu in health and disease.
  • Interpret bio-statistical methods to make inferences from hospital/ community data.
  • Suggest feasible methods of environmental control at household and community levels.
  • Plan, collect, analyze, interpret and present data from a hospital/ community survey.
  • Diagnose and manage maternal and child health problems and advise couples and the community on the family planning methods available.
  • Diagnose and manage common health problems and emergencies at the individual, family and community levels keeping in mind the existing health care resources, prevailing socio-cultural beliefs and family resources.
  • Plan and implement an intervention programme with community participation.


CHSW 32053 - Svastavrutta (Community Medicine)

At the end of this module, BAMS undergraduate student should be able to;

  • Describe the concepts of community health in perspective of Ayurveda and Modern medical sciences, measures of levels of health, epidemiological methods, the demographic pattern of the country and its relation to health.
  • Describe and define basic bio statistical methods, vital statistics and various methods that are used to collect vital statistics in Sri Lanka.
  • Describe and analyze the roles of the individuals, family, community and socio-cultural milieu in health and diseases.
  • Describe the methods of nutritional assessment in the community, environmental hazards, occupational hazards and control of those hazards.
  • Apply appropriate epidemiological methods to communicable and non-communicable diseases in the hospital and community situations.