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4. Infrastructure and Training
Pages 12-18

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... Accredited offices spent more per capita than did nonaccredited offices. Findings on workload revealed even greater variation.
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... Death investigators work with medical examiners and coroners to obtain and document information on reported deaths, conduct scene investigations, and participate in other parts of Neatly investigations as directed by medical examiners or coroners. The overwhelming majority of offices had body transport and radiology.
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... More training programs and snore trainees are nee(ie(l. Training, Registry, and Certification of Death Investigators Mary Fran Ernst The origin of lay examiners who work for medical examiners traces back to the 1950s.
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... Only 11% of the nation's 125 medical schools have full-ti~ne faculty members who are forensic pathologists 39 total faculty members. Only two are principal investigators on research grants, one other forensic pathologist has some degree of research funding (co-investigator)
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... Despite the low level of research support, there is an abundance of research opportunities in forensic pathology, largely through collaborations with other fields: epidemiology and surveillance of violent deaths, substance abuse, unintentional injuries, environmental hazards, and infectious diseases. Forensic pathology researchers can also play a key role in research on public health interventions, trauma care, pharmacogenomics, and pathogenesis.
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... to public health policy. Epidemiologic research using death scene investigations has also been critical in other states and has pointed to a problem with multiple drug use, as distinct frown use of single agents (Cone et al., 2003~.
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... . Lack of research stymies public health and precludes development of an evidence base for the field itself (Richard Bonnie, Randy Hanzlick)
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Key Terms

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  • death scene
  • victor weedn
  • medicolegal death
  • randy hanzlick
  • forensic pathologists

  • scene investigations
  • data acquisition
  • forensic pathologist
  • criminal justice
  • scene investigation

  • evidence base
  • richard bonnie
  • american board
  • epidemiologic research
  • pathology training

  • alan trachtenberg
  • pass rate
  • largest commitment
  • justice communities
  • abuse deaths

  • coroner contributed
  • population based
  • dramatic rise
  • single agents
  • unintentional injuries


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