Forensic Medical Examiner Course

What will I learn?

Get the skills you need for a career as a Forensic Medical Examiner with our course. You'll learn about the laws and ethics, how to do postmortems, and how to look at dead bodies to find out why someone died. You'll also become an expert in poisons and how to read the results of tests. You'll improve your report writing so you can write down what you find clearly. This good, practical course is for people who want to become autopsy professionals and do well in their jobs.

Develop your skills

Enhance your practical skills listed below

Learn the right way to do postmortems: Understand the laws and ethics well.

Find out why people die: Look at dead bodies carefully to work out the cause of death.

Do complete postmortems: Follow the rules for checking the inside and outside of the body.

Understand poison test results: Use the data from poison tests to help make conclusions.

Write clear reports: Write down your findings and what you recommend clearly and correctly.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters similar to the examples below

This is a free course aimed at personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but provides practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.