PMDC NLE — Forensic Medicine MCQs
Practice 4 Forensic Medicine past-paper MCQs for PMDC NLE, each with a detailed explanation and reference. Try free samples below, then start a full quiz.
Forensic Medicine is a core part of the PMDC NLE syllabus. HighYield's Forensic Medicine question bank collects 4MCQs modelled on real past papers, so you practise the exact style and difficulty you'll face on exam day. Every question comes with a worked explanation and a subject reference, so you learn why an answer is right — not just which option to pick.
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Sample Forensic Medicine Questions
Under what doctrine can a surgeon be held responsible for a surgical sponge left in a patient's abdomen by a nurse on the team?
- A.Civil negligence (a general concept that does not specifically describe this employer-employee accountability)
- B.Vicarious liability
- C.Contributory negligence (describes the patient's own negligence partly contributing to the harm)
- D.Novus actus interveniens (an unforeseeable intervening act that breaks the chain of causation)
A 17-year-old girl accidentally ingests kerosene oil. What is the most important common complication of this poisoning?
- A.Encephalopathy (CNS depression can occur, but pneumonia dominates clinically)
- B.Acute renal failure (not typical of kerosene poisoning)
- C.Acute hepatic failure (possible with some other hydrocarbons, but not the common kerosene complication)
- D.Bronchopneumonia
An autopsy in a suspected criminal abortion case shows cyanosis, with distension and bright red frothy blood in the right side of the heart, pulmonary arteries, and coronary veins. What is the most probable cause of death?
- A.Hemorrhage (produces pale organs and low blood volume, not a distended right heart with frothy blood)
- B.Air embolism
- C.Sepsis (produces septic emboli or peritonitis features, not air-distended chambers)
- D.Fat embolism (typically follows long-bone fractures, presenting with a petechial rash and respiratory failure)
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