Medicine & Health Sciences

Hi Naveen,
Forensic science course deals with the most scientific ways in which various kinds of crimes or activities can be proved. It is essentially a crime and laboratory-based profession. But the expertise of a forensic professional is also used in civil cases for issues like proving the validity of a signature on a will, to a claim of the products liability, to find out whether an industry is complying with environmental rules or not. Forensic Science is broadly grouped into three types: Medical, laboratory and field science.
1. Medical/Data medicine includes forensic pathology, psychiatry, psychology, forensic medicine and odontology (dentistry).
2. Laboratory Sciences include chemistry, biology, toxicology, ballistics, fingerprints, questioned documents and marks & impressions.
3. Field Sciences include crime scene investigation which incorporates areas such as fire and explosion scenes and clandestine drug laboratories.

Hi Harshit,
Cardiac technology is an area of specialization for allied health professionals. Cardiovascular technologists and technicians assist physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac (heart) and peripheral vascular (blood vessel) conditions.
Cardiac technologists prepare patients for open-heart surgery and the implanting of pacemakers. Technologists monitor patients during these procedures. The course is three years duration and career orienting in nature that opens many jobs for them after its successful completion. Professional from this field can find employment as doctors in hospitals in cardiology department, cardiac rehabilitation centers and clinics testing patients for heart problems.
They can work in hospitals on the hourly, weekly and monthly basis. Most of them consider private practice and get self-employed by starting their own clinic. There are some who work in several hospitals as consultants as well as run their own clinic.

Hi Harish,
AFMC eligibility criteria:
1.Applying candidates have to be a resident of India.
2.The age should not be less than 17 and not more than 22 years as on 31st December of that year are only eligible to apply.
3. Candidate passed their 10+2 examination with at least 60% of aggregate marks with PCB (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) and English subjects and must also score a minimum of 50% of marks individually in each subject.
4. HSC passed or appearing for the final year and not more than 24 years of age can apply for the examination.
Individual who are appearing must be medically healthy and must are unable to get married during the MBBS course.
Candidates must have passed the qualifying examination in the first attempt with English, Physics, Chemistry and Biology taken simultaneously and securing not less than 60% of the aggregate marks in these three science subjects taken together and not less than 50% marks in English and 50% marks in each of the science subjects. They must have also passed an examination in Mathematics of the 10th standard.