Yeah, interesting, thanks Entgegen. I was mainly just aware that they seem to have a lot on-site or at least directly affiliated with their institute, and around the time I was looking seemed to be one of the "up and coming" programs. Every meeting they seemed to be recruiting, nice pretty fliers, and so forth; fits with the reported resources. If they routinely push, grill, and comb, that can be good as long as within the office they're all on the same page -- that can get harder and harder the larger an office is and the more turnover there is, though most offices have a local way of doing certain things.
Almost forgot to add -- future of forensic path. From a job market point of view I think it's pretty decent. Salaries have crept up, and I think mlw makes a good point that as the NAME standards of recommended/maximum numbers of autopsies further takes hold, along with the NAS and other reports and recommendations encouraging the use of board certified forensic pathologists, that job openings will continue to trickle up rather than down. I don't know when salaries will flatten off -- I imagine before long, but some competition helps, and enough publicity has surrounded problem people/cases that jurisdictions are somewhat willing to pay more to try to avoid the same problem. Either way, not much moves all that fast when we're talking about funding coming from states and counties, and any given office is always at some risk of freezes, cuts, or changes -- that's just part of it.
