Professor Jason Payne-James, LLM, MSc, FFFLM, FRCS, FRCP, FCSFS, RCPathME, FFCFM(RCPA), DFM, LBIPP, MediatorSpecialist in Forensic & Legal Medicine & Consultant Forensic PhysicianHonorary Clinical Professor, William Harvey Research Institute Queen Mary University of LondonConsultant Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Forensic & Legal MedicineLead Medical Examiner, Norfolk & Norwich Hospital University NHS Trust, NorwichDirector, Forensic Health Services Ltd, Southminster, United KingdomRichard Jones, BSc(Hons), MBBS, PgCUTL, FRCPath, FHEA,MCIEH, MFFLM, MRSPHClinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic PathologyWales Institute of Forensic MedicineCardiff University School of MedicineCollege of Biomedical and Life Sciences, CardiffHome Office-Registered Forensic Pathologist,Honorary Consultant Forensic Pathologist Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Cardiff, United Kingdom

• Principles of forensic practice. The ethics of medical practice. Medicolegal aspects of death. Violence in society, medicolegal investigation of death and the autopsy. The appearance of the body after death. Death from natural causes. Deaths and injury in infancy. Assessment, classification and documentation of injury. Ballistic injuries. Regional injuries and patterns of injury. Pressure to the neck and asphyxia deaths. Heat, cold and electrical trauma. Immersion and drowning. Identification of the living and the dead. Restraint and control techniques. Police custodial healthcare. Sexual assault, genitoanal injury and female genital mutilation. Safeguarding and protection of children and vulnerable adults. Transportation medicine. Torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Principles of forensic science and crime scene investigation. Principles of toxicology. Alcohol. Licit and illicit drugs. Medicinal poisons. Miscellaneous poisons.