Eight modules, plus a free bonus module · ten quizzes · about five and a half hours · Rs. 699, normally Rs. 1,499
Certificate Course in Medicine and Law for Law Students
Reading the medical file
In short
Who it is for. LLB, BA LLB, BLS LLB and LLM students, moot teams and judicial service aspirants.
What you learn. The medicine behind the law you study: the hospital file, the standard of care, injuries and the medico legal case, the post mortem and the dying declaration, sexual offences, age and DNA, and the medical expert.
What you get. Eight short modules of about fifteen minutes each, a quiz after each one, a printable working document from every module, a free bonus glossary of medical terms, and a certificate when you pass. One payment, twelve months of access.
Module one and its quiz open without payment and without a card. Enrol when you are ready, or not at all.
Medicine meets a law student first in criminal law and evidence: the injury report, the post mortem, the dying declaration, age and DNA. This course teaches you to read those documents and argue them from both sides, as a moot or an examination problem will demand. It is a private course: it does not replace or count towards any university paper.
Written by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, a medical practitioner qualified in law, in consultation with a High Court advocate. She is not an enrolled advocate. This course teaches the medicine a lawyer meets and the law that governs medical evidence; it is not legal advice and it does not teach courtroom advocacy.
8written modules
10scored quizzes
47applied scenarios
52printable sheets
5.5hours in total
12months of access
Founding price
Rs. 699then Rs. 1,499
The founding price is limited to the first 200 enrolments. The standing price after that is Rs. 1,499.
Why there are two prices
Why the two figures, plainly. Rs. 1,499 is the standing price of this course, and the system that takes your payment is set to charge it from the 201st enrolment. Rs. 699 is the founding price for the first 200 places. It is an early place, not a discount. The course does not change between the two prices, other than the dated updates every course in the Academy receives, and a later rise never applies to a course you have already paid for.
One payment, no subscription and no renewal. Twelve months of access to all eight modules, all ten quizzes and the certificate. A later price rise never applies to a course you have already paid for, and nothing further is ever charged for it.
Enrol on the course
Two ways in: enrol now below, or read module one and its quiz first, free and with no card. Either is fine, and one does not cost you the other.
Read module one before you buy
Not ready to decide? Module one and its quiz open without payment, so you can see the writing, the depth and the way the questions work first. No card, nothing charged, and nothing charged later unless you choose to buy.
What you will be able to do when you have finished
Not what you will have heard about. What you will be able to do, on a Tuesday, with the thing in your hand.
Name the four forums a medical complaint can reach, what each decides and on what standard.
Read a hospital file part by part, the abbreviations included, and build a chronology from it.
State the standard of care as the Supreme Court does: Bolam as adopted in Jacob Mathew, Kusum Sharma, logical analysis and res ipsa loquitur.
Explain consent, confidentiality and the right to records under Samira Kohli, BNS ss.25 to 30 and the 2002 Regulations.
Read an injury report and apply BNS ss.114 and 116, with grievous hurt now at fifteen days.
Read a post mortem report and a dying declaration, with BNSS ss.194, 196, 330 and 336 and Laxman.
Handle the medical evidence in a sexual offence case with dignity: BNSS s.184, the end of the two finger test, POCSO, age under JJ Act s.94 and DNA.
Use and test a medical expert, and argue legal insanity under BNS s.22.
How much of your time this takes
About five and a half hours in total, and none of it has to be done in one sitting. The course remembers where you are, on whichever device you open it on, one device at a time.
Eight written lessons, 18,713 words
about 104 minutes
Eight working document packs, 52 printable sheets, 7,888 words
about 44 minutes
Ten quizzes, 45 questions, with the authority explained on every answer
about 75 minutes
The scenarios to think through, the mock file, and the authorities
about 55 minutes
The bonus module, a medical glossary for lawyers
about 50 minutes
Everything, 43,576 words
about 5 hours 30 minutes
Written in fifteen minute pieces for a phone. The working documents are ones you keep: a forum map, a chronology template, a negligence worksheet, a consent and confidentiality note, an injury report reading sheet, a post mortem reading sheet, a sexual offence evidence checklist with an age table, and an expert evidence answer plan.
The certificate. Pass every module quiz and the final quiz (12 of 16) and a certificate issues in your name, verifiable online. It is a certificate of a private course issued by DoctorLawyer Academy. It is not a degree, diploma or qualification of any university; it is not recognised or approved by the Bar Council of India, the UGC or any other regulator; it carries no continuing legal education credit; and it does not certify anyone as a specialist in any field.
How the course runs, start to certificate
1
Eight written modules. About fifteen minutes each, read in any order, at your own pace, on a phone or a laptop. Every legal proposition carries the case, section or regulation it rests on, so you can check it. Each module also leaves you a document you can use: a forum and standard map, a medical chronology template with an abbreviation table, a negligence elements worksheet, a consent and confidentiality note, an injury report reading sheet, a post mortem report reading sheet, a sexual offence evidence checklist with an age table, and an expert evidence answer plan with a mock file model answer.
2
A scored quiz at the end of each module. Five applied questions, not definitions: a situation, and what you would do. Four out of five to pass. Retake it as often as you like, and the authority is explained on every answer, right and wrong. Your best score is the one kept.
3
A final quiz across all eight modules. It opens once you have passed all eight module quizzes. Sixteen questions, two drawn from each module, twelve out of sixteen to pass. Your sixteen are not the same as anybody else’s. Retake it as often as you need.
4
A certificate of completion, issued once the eight module quizzes and the final quiz are all passed. It is signed by Dr. Rupal V. Rana, MBBS, DCH, LLB, LLM, and carries a number anyone you show it to can check on this site. It is a certificate of completion of a private course: not a degree, diploma or qualification of any university; not recognised or approved by the Bar Council of India, any State Bar Council, the UGC or any other regulator; no continuing legal education credit; and it does not certify anyone as a specialist in any field. Anyone who later enrols as an advocate should read the rules of their own Bar Council before citing it.
The eight modules, and what each one leaves you able to do
01How medicine reaches the lawYou will be able to name the four forums a medical complaint can reach, say what each decides and on what standard, say who can be named in each, and answer a moot or examination question on forum, jurisdiction and the right provision.Open first
02Anatomy of a hospital fileYou will be able to name the parts of a complete indoor file and who writes each, separate the three times in any entry, recognise a late entry and a correction, argue a gap from either side of a moot, and build a chronology from a problem's annexure.15 min
03The standard of careYou will be able to state the Indian test for the standard of care with its authorities, explain the logical analysis gloss, read Kusum Sharma accurately, tell an error of judgment from negligence, say when res ipsa loquitur applies and when it does not, and answer a problem element by element for either side.15 min
04Consent, confidentiality and recordsYou will be able to state the Indian law of consent with its authorities, distinguish the civil necessity exception from the criminal defence, apply the rules for minors and refusal, set out the exceptions to confidentiality, and explain a patient's right to records and how it is exercised.15 min
05Injuries, hurt and the medico legal caseYou will be able to read an injury report line by line, separate what the doctor saw from what the doctor inferred, apply BNS ss.114 and 116 (with clause (h) at fifteen days), say when the law requires a hospital to inform the police, explain what BNSS ss.51, 52 and 53 require, and argue medical against ocular evidence from either side.15 min
06Death: inquest, post mortem and the dying declarationYou will be able to say when BNSS s.194 requires a post mortem and when s.196 requires a Magistrate's inquiry, read a post mortem report for cause, mechanism and manner, treat time since death as a range, explain how the report is proved after Ghulam Hassan Beigh and under BNSS ss.329, 330 and 336, and test a dying declaration under BSA s.26(a) and Laxman from either side.15 min
07Sexual offences, age and DNAYou will be able to test a survivor's medical examination report against BNSS s.184, explain why the two finger test has no place in evidence, state the POCSO rules on a child's examination and a doctor's duty to report, determine age in the order JJ Act s.94(2) requires, and assess a DNA report for chain of custody and probative value, from the side of the prosecution and of the defence.15 min
08The medical expert and the unsound mindYou will be able to say when medical expert evidence is needed and who decides, test an expert's opinion, apply BNS ss.22 to 24 and the burden of proof to a plea of unsoundness of mind, and turn a hospital file into a chronology that answers the legal question.15 min
BThe words in the file: a medical glossary for lawyers Bonus, freeYou will be able to read the everyday words and abbreviations of an Indian hospital file, tell what a patient said from what a doctor found and what a doctor thought, spot the abbreviations that carry two meanings, and know when a word must be confirmed by a doctor before you rely on it in a moot or an answer.Free bonus · 15 min
The bonus module is included and costs nothing extra. The words in the file: a medical glossary for lawyers, with about 150 terms and 85 abbreviations arranged by where they appear in a hospital file, and what each means for a case. It sits outside the eight: it is not in the final quiz and it is not needed for the certificate. It has its own scored quiz for anyone who wants one.
This is education, not advice on your matter. Nothing in the course is advice about any particular client, patient, complaint, notice or case, and reading it does not create a relationship of adviser and client.
It is not clinical teaching. No module tells you how to run a case or how to treat anybody; it teaches the medicine a lawyer meets and the law that governs it.
Nothing is promised as an outcome. No course prevents a complaint, and none of this guarantees how any forum will decide anything.
It is not advice on any matter. Nothing in it is advice on any client, file or case, and the course does not review anyone's papers.
The material is licensed to you alone. It may not be recorded, copied, shared, resold or circulated. Pages carry the name and email of the person they were issued to.