PREVALENCE OF FORENSIC CASES IN MEDAN CITY REGIONAL GENERAL HOSPITALS IN 2020-2021 AS AN EVALUATION OF FORENSIC SPECIALIST DOCTOR EDUCATION PROGRAM NETWORK HOSPITALS

Abstract

Backgrounds: Forensic medicine is a specialist branch of medical science that utilizes medical science to assist law enforcement and solve legal problems. The scope of forensic medicine is evolving from time to time. From the beginning only on the death of crime victims, unexpected and suspected deaths, unidentified corpses, to crime victims who are still alive, or even skeletons, tissues and biological material suspected of human origin. The types of cases also widen from murder, violations, sexual crimes, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, lawsuits for divorce, fraud and misuse of insurance, to violations of human rights. Graduates of forensic and medicolegal specialists are expected to be able to diagnose and manage forensic medical cases in accordance with individual, team or institutional roles, and manage forensic medicine installations in health care facilities or other institutions that meet professional and service standards Objective: To determine the prevalence of forensic cases in Medan City Regional General Hospital in 2020-2021 as well as the profile of each case that will be used as evaluation material as a network hospital which has so far built collaboration between the Faculty of Medicine, University of North Sumatra , in this case the Forensic Study Program, and the Medan City Regional General Hospital in forensic specialist education program activities. Methods: This research is a descriptive study with a cross-sectional design to see the prevalence of forensic cases as an evaluation of the hospital forensic specialist education network program. Results : Based on the results of data analysis and discussion that has been carried out in the study of the prevalence of forensic cases at the Regional General Hospital in Medan City in 2020-2021, it can be concluded that as many as 33 cases were studied in the forensic case prevalence study at the Medan City Hospital, with a variety of cases, namely 29 cases of traffic accidents (87.8%), 1 case of abuse (3.0%), 2 cases of domestic violence (6.2%), and 1 sudden death (3.0%). The researcher concluded that the number and variety of forensic cases in Medan City General Hospital tended to be less compared to other studies.