The effect of knowledge update on forensic reports

Abstract

The importance of forensic reports given by emergency services is known by everybody. However, it is observed that some of these reports may involve wrong or missing comments for some reasons. Forensic knowledge of the doctors who write forensic reports are updated in our faculty. So this study is also performed to see what happens after graduation as a result of education given. Research is based on a comparative study on total 514 reports (including before and after education). Numbers of reports giving misuse of "life threatening" is decreased from 65.4% to 34.6%, the number of reports using proper use of "period of impediment" is increased from 43.1 % to 56.9%, and the number of final reports has been increased from 7.8% to 18.3%. Although education applied has eliminated some disturbances and miscomprehension, it is concluded that, if the similar programs are continuously performed, positive results can certainly be obtained.