American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators
The American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI) is an independent not-for-profit certification board that works to encourage and enhance professional standards among medicolegal death investigators (individuals involved in establishing the cause of death and the identification of the deceased).
History
The American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI) was founded in February 1998, following research by the Chief Medical Examiner of Milwaukee, Dr Jeffrey Jantzen, which revealed a lack of regulation in the skills needed for medicolegal death investigations. No particular education was required to practice as a death investigator, and training was provided 'on the job'. The ABMDI was therefore established to test and certify medicolegal death investigators on a national level.
Current work
A main part of ABMDI's work is the certification examination; after this initial certification, continued training and education is required for recertification. As of 2007, there were approximately 800 ABMDI-registered death investigators.
References
- Moldovan, Emil. "The Medicolegal Death Investigator: An Evolution in Crime Scene Investigations Relating to Unexpected Deaths". http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/medicolegal/review2.php. Retrieved 10 April 2011.
- ^ Pyrek, Kelly (2007). Forensic Science Under Siege: The Challenges of Forensic Laboratories and the Medico-Legal Death Investigation System. Academic Press. pp. 190–191.
- Prahlow, Joseph (2009). Forensic Pathology for Forensic Scientists, Police, and Death Investigators. Springer. pp. 54.
External links
Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Board_of_Medicolegal_Death_Investigators
