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Summary: Becoming a forensics pathologist involves completing pre-med coursework in addition to attending medical or osteopathy school to become a physician. Complete a residency before sitting for the board exam with helpful information from a forensic chemist in this free video on science careers.
Bethany Pridgen is a forensic chemist working in a local city police department crime laboratory. Over the past year, she has been developing a more functional forensic laboratory for...read more
"Hi, I'm Bethany Pridgen. I'm a forensic chemist and I'm here to talk to you about how to become a Forensic Pathologist. Training to become a forensic pathologist can be a very long, difficult but exciting process. It will involve completing a pre-med coursework, and your undergraduate education and also attending medical school or osteopathy school to become a physician. You then must pursue a residency in pathology and forensic pathology in order to be able to sit for the boards, approximately six years later. Once you're a certified forensic pathologist, you may be working for a coroners office or a medical examiners office. Your job, primary job, is to determine what the cause and manner of the death may be. Some of your primary duties will be performing autopsies and collecting biological samples to send off for testing. You will then analyze all of the results that come back in order to determine that cause and manner of death. The types of deaths that you may, primarily will be investigating, will be sudden, unexpected, unnatural deaths. These are just some tips in order to become a forensic pathologist."
eHow Article: How to Become a Forensics Pathologist
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