PATH 608 AUTOPSY PATHOLOGY
This course provides didactic and clinical practical autopsy procedure/performance experience during the second year of study of the Pathologists? Assistant Program. The student shall become proficient in all phases of the human post-mortem examination, adult and fetal/pediatric, including review of consent forms and death certifications, review of medical records, decedent identification, evisceration, organ block dissection, description of findings, and preparation of post-mortem reports. Students receive basic instruction in the function of the autopsy service and the hospital morgue. Practical aspects of specimen photography are also presented during the course. Students are exposed to basic concepts of the medico-legal investigation of death in a one-month rotation at Maryland?s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where the students receive hands-on instruction in forensic autopsies.