The Relationship Between Medical School-Based Pathology Departments and Affiliated Forensic Pathology Training Sites.

ABSTRACT: Medical school-based pathology departments were surveyed in order to evaluate their relationship with sites providing forensic pathology training. Of 59 departments surveyed, 49 (83%) responded. Most (88%) respondents indicated that training occurs at an affiliated medical examiner/coroner office, and 78% indicated that the facility is 10 miles or less from the academic health center. The majority (61%) of respondents require 4 weeks of forensic pathology training for their residents while the others require none (3); 6, 8, or 12 weeks (2 each); and 16 weeks (3, with two having integrated forensic and medical autopsies). The majority (81%) send one resident at a time to the forensic pathology training site, and almost always (92%) the experience is dedicated to forensic pathology without m

SUBMITTER: Bailey DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8411622 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature