Overview of Medicolegal Death Investigation is an on-demand two-module self-paced course designed to familiarize those taking this course with the nature, reasons, and procedures of the death investigation system in Alabama along with its strengths and limitations. The course is presented by Edward A. Reedy, PhD, MD, State Medical Director with the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences.
 

Course Level Learning Objectives:

• Distinguish between roles and responsibilities of a Medical Examiner and Coroner
• Distinguish between cause and manner of death
• Execute an accurate and complete death certificate
• Understand the steps of the autopsy process including differentiation between forensic and hospital autopsy, as well as full, partial, and external autopsy
• Describe and contrast methods of human identification