Abstract

The purpose of this study is to assess the current nature and extent offorensic science training in the nation's 43 Accreditation Council for GraduateMedical Education (ACGME)-accredited forensic pathology fellowship programs.This manuscript describes the results of a survey of training program directorsperformed as a project for the College of American Pathologists (CAP) ForensicIdentity Committee. The results show a considerable diversity in the forensicsciences training in forensic pathology programs, ranging from one to tenweeks, with an average of 4.1 weeks. However, almost one half of programsprovide no training in at least one of the surveyed disciplines. Only 58.1%of responding programs meet the ACGME requirements for forensic science training,and a similar percentage (56.0%) currently provides the duration of forensicscience training recommended by the National Association of Medical Examiners(NAME). The deficit in the NAME training recommendations, surprisingly, wasstrictly in the field of toxicology.

Issue Section:
Technical Notes
Keywords:
forensic science, forensic pathology, fellowship, crime laboratory

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