The district of columbia office of the chief medical examiner (DC ocme) will utilize funding to train two full-time forensic pathologist fellows to become board certified forensic pathologists

The District of Columbia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (DC OCME) has been awarded a $295,054 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Strengthening the Medical Examiner-Coroner System Program (CFDA 16.037). The grant will fund the training of two full-time forensic pathologist fellows through the DC OCME's ACGME-accredited Forensic Pathology Fellowship Program. The fellows will receive comprehensive training in performing autopsies, forensic death investigations, anthropology identifications, histology analysis, toxicology interpretation, moot court, and deposition testimonies, as well as participating in daily case review meetings. This grant aims to increase the number of qualified, board-certified forensic pathologists to address critical gaps in forensic pathology and medicolegal death investigation services across the United States.

Through the DC ocme forensic pathology fellowship program, accredited by the accreditation council for graduate medical education (acgme), which is housed at its national association medical examiner (name) accredited facility, fellows will receive quality training and education. This will come in the form of performing autopsies, participating in forensic death investigation, anthropology identifications, histology microscope analysis, toxicology interpretation, moot court, and deposition testimonies, as well as participating in daily case review meetings to discuss postmortem examinations.