Forensics

[mill_z]

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I recently became interested in forensics and I was wondering if anyone knew anything about the feild. I love anatomy so doing autopsies would be something of interest for me. What resisdency would one want to go into if they were interested in forensics or would like to perform autopsies? How competive is the field? How long is the resisdency? What is the compensation like?

Thanks

 

[tlew12778]

I think in the US you would go into Pathology.

Here in Italy (and maybe the rest of the EU) there is another specialty called Legal Medicine which deals with medicine and the law (obviously). Both specialties work on forensic cases.

 

[leorl]

Yeah, I do believe you go into Pathology as your residency, then you do Forensic Medicine as a subsequent fellowship. It is an interesting field, I don't think it's terribly competitive. Not quite sure about the wages, but I'm sure you could look that up on the internet, just do an ask jeeves search or something. Or, ask the question in the Pathology forum in the Residency section.