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Acoroner is an elected or appointed department head responsible for medicolegal death investigations and determining the cause and manner of death. Coroners are generally not required to have any medical knowledge or death investigation experience. A medical examiner is generally an appointed physician who is a department head. However, not all physicians must be board-certified forensic pathologists who conduct forensic postmortem examinations (autopsies). In some states, such as Wisconsin, medical examiners are not required to be physicians, yet the term is still utilized when a department head is appointed.

Outside of different terminology for the roles, the function of medicolegal death investigations remains the same: identify decedents, notify the legal next of kin, collect evidence and property, and determine the cause and manner of death. Deaths that fall into the jurisdiction of a medicolegal death investigative office are considered unnatural, when the decedent has no known medical history, or a physician who saw the decedent as a patient cannot opine what may have caused an otherwise natural death.

Medicolegal death investigative offices make two determinations: 1) The cause of death, or what immediately led to the death and 2) The manner of death, a categorization of the cause of death and the known circumstances surrounding it.

The cause and manners of death should be reached through an unbiased investigation and autopsy, as bias can lead to incorrect causes and manners of death with undesirable consequences to kin and public health records. The shortage of forensic pathologists leads to physicians working for multiple agencies, circumventing an accreditation standard of a forensic pathologist not completing more than 250 autopsies annually.

With the vital role of medicolegal investigative offices in public health, identification of decedents, and determining causes and manners of death, only 43% of medicolegal offices have a computerized case management system to track deaths and work completed. Also worrisome is that about 80% of agencies have access to the internet outside of their personal devices. The internet provides significant assistance in finding legal next of kin, adding unidentified person information to national databases, and communicating with stakeholders via email. Investigations were completed by internal agency employees about 85% of the time, and scene photography was completed by employees about 71% of the time. Less than 20% of agencies completed autopsies in their facility, with the vast majority of agencies contracting forensic pathology services outside of their jurisdiction.

State and local charters will make transitioning to a standardized national medicolegal death investigative system challenging, but appropriate funding can assist with providing fundamental resources for offices and improve training nationally. Accreditation of medicolegal death investigative offices can ensure that best practices and minimum standards are met, though the shortage of forensic pathologists will challenge accreditation viability. Certification of death investigators, which is not currently required nationally, encourages high ethical and investigative standards for practitioners and requires training, experience, and funds for earning certification. Nationally prescribed, foundational medicolegal death investigation training is needed to provide a basic knowledge level to all medicolegal personnel. This will lead to more accurate investigations and determinations of cause and manner of death. Through a collaborative effort of the federal government with local medicolegal agencies, death investigations can be improved across the United States to best serve families, communities, and the public health system.

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I want to fill you in on what really goes on behind the scenes at my medical school and maybe you can help inform other students about what happens here before they make a huge mistake. If students slip between the cracks of a US med school, then international med schools in the Caribbean may be the next choice. Some have better residency match rates than others so beware. Mind you, your choice of residency is skewed a bit coming down here, but again there are ways to work your way through internal medicine and find a fellowship of your choice, it is just a tougher and longer road.

My school allows 1000 students a year in on average at the start of each August class. They let in about 700 for the January starting class which are on different schedules and have a smaller lecture hall to accommodate a smaller class. My starting class began with 1100 students, we are down to 650, meaning 59 percent of my class that I started the first day here with are still here to finish off our second year. The class of 700, starting in January, finished with around 450, meaning about 64 percent of their class made it from day 1 to the last day of year 2. US med schools have about a 1-2% attrition rate, we have on average a 40% attrition rate. The problem I have with this is that our school allows students to take on 40K per semester of debt just to dismiss them after 4 or 5 semesters if they fall below an overall GPA below a 75% or having a final grade of below 70% in any one class. If a student does fall below either mark students may or may not be allowed to decel, which means repeating the failed class; however, this looks bad on a residency app and if one fails again they are almost certainly dismissed (rare exceptions).

2) The mandatory lectures are nearly pathetic. There are usually so many mistakes made by the inexperienced professors, the lecture becomes confusing and muddled. Students are used to having brilliant or at least decent professors. When they see the quality of tutelage and mix that with the stress and workload, the second round of students drop out by midterms.

3) There are not enough dorms on campus to house this many students. Our school placed a random selection of students in a motel 5 miles from campus. There were no laundry services, no ovens, and a shared floor bathroom. Some were disappointed about only having a hotplate and microwave to cook with. This added with the intense work load and adaptation into the pace of medical school is the third round of students to drop out.

5) Students who can not self study and teach themselves the material fail. Students at my school must teach themselves what they need to know. We are given a vague outline and need to get through the tests and STEP with high scores. We actively search for resources to help fill in the gaps our school leaves. About 30% of the class has headphones on during lecture listening to an outside source and just click in for the attendance question.

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Thanks for writing Elizabeth. There are terrible emotional and financial consequences when informed consent is lacking as these idealistic humanitarians forge ahead off shore toward their medical degrees. So many fractured lives and lost dreams. I can not even imagine being able to sleep at night if I ran a medical school with a 40% fail rate. Thinking of all those young people with 100-200K+ debt and no degree of any use is just tragic! No words.

Hello came across this page after doing research on Carribean medical school. I am the support for a family member that is attending Antigua Medical school and of course true to the comment above. My family member has failed two semester and appeal for financial aid.

This is unethical, fraud, immoral and something needs to be done about it. Perhaps US Department of Education should start and investigation. For profit school something fishy is going on. I will continue my research until something is done about this

In the U.S. school with repeat 40% failing rate would be shut down. How is it that Financial Aid continue to give loans and assistance to schools and are not creating medical doctors. How are loan to be paid back. PLEASE ANYONE READING THIS POST SHARE IT

We need to know if any progress. My daughter is in this situation. $30,000 to do the special 1st semester and they had material for 1,2,and some of 3 of the medical school 2 year program. It has been a night.are,failed her,taking again at no cost yet here she goes again. Tough young woman,well versed,lots of experience through her 27 years. How do they do this to students and get away with it?

OMG! I recently applied to SGU and have an interview in the next couple of days. Do you guys have any advice for me? I live in the US and have been out of school for about 4 years. I was told that they are considering me for the CFP and MD programs. Does anyone recommend to retake the MCAT and get into a medical school in the US instead of the Caribbean? Pros and cons to CFP at SGU?

Need some advice PLEASE!

Thanks for the additional insight. What is the tuition for Nigerian med schools? I would hope very much cheaper than others given your description above. Also how would students find out the truth? Online search? Are current students honest with them during the interview process?

Hi Hani, Which school are you attending? I got into RUSM and SJSM, and having a hard time to decided which one to choose. One (SJSM) is way cheaper than the other. Any tips from others here will be greatly appreciated. I am an older student with grown up kids. I have been passionate about studying medicine. Can retake the MCAT and reapply to med schools in the US, but that would push off my journey by two years.

Hi,

I am a Nigerian considering medical school too. Please can you inbox me to guide me at trace...@yahoo.com. Please your guidance will be very much appreciated. My parents and I are trying to take a decision. Thank you.

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