Abstract:
Pathologists’ assistants in forensics are becoming more prevalent. New positions in medical examiner or coroner offices are being approved with increasing frequency. At the same time, hospital-based PAs are seeing an increase in overflow medical examiner forensic autopsies contracted to the hospital autopsy service. This session will be the first of a series of forensic-based webinars focusing on forensic knowledge that can benefit all practicing PAs. In this session, Juniper Fedor, MS, PA(ASCP), D-ABMDI, will present forensic pathology and medicolegal death investigation basics and terminology, including legal considerations, the differences between forensic and clinical autopsy, different facets of the medical examiner and coroner office, as well as other essential forensic-based knowledge.

Instruction Level:
Basic – Entry level; no prior knowledge of subject necessary

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the presentation, the participant will be able to:

• Understand forensic pathology and medicolegal death investigation basics and terminology.
  
• Identify the differences between forensic and clinical autopsy.
  
• Describe different facets of the medical examiner and coroner office.

Important Continuing Education (CE) Credit Information:

The AAPA is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS PACE^TM Program.

This recorded webinar and quiz marks the 8th of 20 free CE credits in 2024. CE offerings are released incrementally throughout the year, by way of manuscripts and webinars with quizzes sent via email, and manuscripts with quizzes featured in The Cutting Edge journal.

Important Notes:

• If you attended the live webinar session in March 2024, you can NOT earn an additional credit by completing the quiz. Check your Online CE Journal to see if you already earned credit.
  
• To watch the non-CE version, click here.

Follow the link below to watch the one-hour webinar and take the quiz. You must pass the quiz for the unit to appear in your personal Online CE Journal. If you have provided your 8-digit ASCP Customer ID and your first and last names are an exact match to your ASCP profile, the AAPA PACE credits you earn will seamlessly transfer over to your ASCP transcript on a weekly basis.

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