Dr Kameran Kader, 43, left up to 700 confidential documents ripped up by the bin in the Lidget Green area of Bradford, the General Medical Council was told.
The panel heard the forms were completed when Dr Kader was a police surgeon at the Charles C
ross police station in Plymouth.
They included documents containing personal details of sex abuse victims, a witness statement from a victim of child abuse and records of patient examinations.
Also strewn by the bin were records of patients' blood test results, and forms containing suspects' names and addresses.
Libby Nichols, for the GMC, told the panel the papers were discovered by a bin at the junction of Cumberland Road and Legrams Lane in Bradford last year.
By that time, Dr Kader had left his post in Plymouth and was a forensic psychiatrist at Strangeways prison in Manchester.
The doctor admits all the charges against him but claims he placed the papers in the bin, not at the side.
He also denies his fitness to practise is impaired.
Dr Kader told the GMC that when he left Charles Cross police station, where he was employed by Medacs Health Service, in December 2003 he did not know how long he was supposed to keep his records.
After leaving Plymouth he moved from city to city in different locum posts, had no permanent base and was forced to carry all the documents with him. Just over a year later, in March 2005, he began having personal problems with his partner, who lived in Holland.
He told the panel he thought he was going to have to move back to Holland permanently and decided to get rid of the documents.
He said while working at Strangeways in Manchester he drove to Leeds to have dinner on his own, but when he tried to drive back he got lost and ended up in Bradford.
Dr Kader, who now works for South Essex Partnership NHS Trust dealing with addicted patients, said he sat in his car, ripped up the papers and put them in carrier bags before dumping them in a bin.
Malcolm Fortune, representing the doctor, said: "Why did you dump four bags of records and documents in a public rubbish bin?"
"I was quite confused at the time," Dr Kader replied.
Miss Nichols told the hearing the documents, which totalled between 600 and 700 statements, forms and records, were found by an on-duty police community support officer on the morning of March 29 last year.
They were eventually sent back to Medacs Health Service.
Joy Harrison, head of clinical government for Medacs, said half the papers were torn in two, while the rest were torn into four pieces.
Miss Nichols said a doctor and forensic medical examiner had a duty to keep notes. "It is his duty to keep those documents safe and confidential and for a considerable period of time because he may be called up to give evidence in criminal or civil cases."
The case continues.
lizzie.murphy@ypn.co.uk
