Nowadays, cultivating experts in clinical forensic medicine (CFM) has become a universal problem worldwide. In most English-speaking countries, CFM is traditionally designed as an introduction and incorporation into medical undergraduate training whereas in China it is an essential sub-specialty of forensic science. The scope, missions, and tasks of this discipline vary widely by virtue of the diversity of countries and legal environment, leading to the difference in pedagogical model, even in professional qualities and abilities. Accordingly, it is imperative to uniform and standardize the training model of undergraduate of forensic major. In this article, we describe a redesigned pedagogical model of CFM implemented by the Faculty of Forensic Medicine, which is characterized by: (a) initiating students into comprehension of CFM and raising their awareness of the professional responsibilities; (b) developing students intellectual curiosity of legal and medical issues and educating in advanced techniques of CFM; (c) cultivating students ability of expression and communication in professional terms and providing with educational resources to enhance their professional qualities; and (d) improving teachers ability of imparting knowledge and promoting the development and optimization of teaching evaluation system. In terms of forensic practical and scientific research, plentiful prominent achievements have been currently acquired resulted from this redesigned pedagogical model, which demonstrates its superiority in undergraduate education.

Dental injuries, especially of the incisors, caused by punches in violent criminal attacks could be seen in daily forensic casework involving the identification of injuries to a living body. Sometimes, when there is neither circumstantial evidence nor information about the surrounding circumstances, it is difficult to discern the cause of these injuries and the manner in which they were inflicted. As an example of clinical forensic medicine, we present the case of a 58-year-old woman whose teeth were injured when fighting with her son-in-law over household affairs with no witnesses present. The two parties had conflicting stories about the cause of the woman\'s injury. The woman claimed that her teeth were lost while she was being beaten by her son-in-law, and the man argued that the damage to his mother-in-law\'s teeth was self-inflicted when she bit his fingers. The police attending the crime called for a forensic examination. Forensic practitioners analysed the mechanism of the tooth loss using multi-slice spiral computed tomography (MSCT) and imaging reconstruction technology. Local alveolar bone (medial alveolar) fracture and a small area of alveolar bone loss were found on MSCT. Thus, forensic medical experts speculated that the woman\'s lower central and lateral incisors were lost as a result of a violent attack and were not self-inflicted. Finally, forensic practitioners helped police in avoiding a miscarriage of justice and wrongful conviction.