Coroner Training
All Kentucky coroners, and all deputy coroners who are not physicians, are required to enroll in a 40 hour Basic Medicolegal Death Investigation course administered by the Department of Criminal Justice Training (DOCJT). This course is the equivalent of a full semester university class condensed into just one week! Each participant is required to complete and successfully pass a final examination at the end of the class. Every year thereafter the coroner/deputy coroner is required to take an 18 hour continuing education course offered by DOCJT and chosen from several courses of different subjects. Each coroner/deputy coroner is also required to complete and successfully pass a final examination at the end of the 18 hour course.
The listing of training courses and seminars has been expanded! This page offers information on training from three areas- (1) DOCJT Training, (2) Non-DOCJT Training, and (3) On-Line Training. Be aware that some of these courses may require registration fees and as of yet only the DOCJT training courses receive credit toward our KY mandatory training requirements!
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2012 DOCJT Training Schedule |
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2012 Courses
40 hour Coroners Basic Medicolegal Death Investigator Training Course
Course # 001C-12J
February 20-24, 2012 Frankfort
Coroner's Conference
Course # 067C-12J
April 18-20, 2012 Louisville
Motor Vehicle Death Investigations
Course # 087C-11J
May 30-31, 2012 Bowling Green
Mass Fatality Response
Course # 074C-11J
June 5-6, 2012 Frankfort
Dealing with Crisis for Coroners
Course # 089C-12J
July 10-11, 2012 Louisville
August 14-15, 2012 Morehead
September 25-26, 2012 Lake Barkley
Coroner's Office Administration
Course # 018C-12J
July 24-25, 2012 Louisville
Coroners Basic Firearms
Course # 017C-12J
August 30-31, 2012 Richmond
Coroner Homicide Investigation
Course # 072C-10J
September 4-5, 2012 Louisville
Coroner's Crime Scene Investigation
Course # 053C-12J
October 16-17, 2012 Owensboro
November 27-28, 2012 Louisville
Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings
Course # 083C-11J
October 23-24, 2012 Carrolton
Mandatory Training
Course # 077C-12J
Mandatory Training-Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma
Course # 090C-11J
2011 Courses
40 hour Coroners Basic Medicolegal Death Investigator Training Course
January 17-21, 2011 Frankfort
March 21-25, 2011 Louisville
44th Annual Coroners Conference
April 20-22, 2011 Louisville
Child Abuse Investigations
May 10-11, 2011 Louisville
Forensic Anthropology
May 17-18, 2011 Louisville
Motor Vehicle Death Investigations
August 2-3, 2011 Morehead
Coroners Office Administration
August 23-24, 2011 Frankfort
Coroner Homicide Investigations
September 7-8, 2011 Louisville
Sudden Natural Death Investigations
September 19-20, 2011 Louisville
Drug Death Investigations
September 27-28, 2011 Lake Barkley
Coroner Firearms I
October 13-14, 2011 Richmond
Mass Fatality Response
November 1-2, 2011 Owensboro
Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings
December 6-7, 2011 Louisville
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Non-DOCJT courses (Not Yet Approved for Mandatory Training Credit) |
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2012 Training Opportunities
40 Hour Medicolegal Death Investigator Course
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
This basic course is designed for death investigators, law enforcement officers, coroners, and physicians (excluding forensic pathologists). Offered three times each year, this five (5) day program teaches individuals how to conduct scientific, systematic, and thorough death scene investigations for Medical Examiner and Coroner's Offices. This course emphasizes the medical aspects of death investigation and is not designed to be a homicide seminar.
January 09-13, 2012
March 12-16, 2012
August 06-10, 2012
2011 Training Opportunities
2011 Spring Continuing Education
for Forensic Professionals Program
Ritz-Carlton Hotel
New Orleans, Louisiana
(Sponsored by the National Institute of Justice and the West Virginia Iniversity Forensic Science Initiative)
March 28-April 2, 2011
THis is a week of training with 33 different courses that range from 1/2 day to 5 days duration. All courses are free to forensic/law enforcement personnel and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Lodging will be provided free. Also, the first 100 people who register will also receive free transportation, either flight charges or pre-approved mileage reimbursement.
Registration is ONLINE ONLY!
For more information go HERE
40 Hour Medicolegal Death Investigator Course
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
This basic course is designed for death investigators, law enforcement officers, coroners, and physicians (excluding forensic pathologists). Offered three times each year, this five (5) day program teaches individuals how to conduct scientific, systematic, and thorough death scene investigations for Medical Examiner and Coroner's Offices. This course emphasizes the medical aspects of death investigation and is not designed to be a homicide seminar.
March 14-18, 2011
August 15-19, 2011
Completion of this course qualifies the student for the Master's Courses, a series of advanced death investigation courses offered every other year.
St. Louis University School of Medicine Forensic Pathology, St. Louis, MO
Registration: $ 825
Contact Julie or Vickey (314) 977-5970 or
mldi@slu.edu
This course is approved by the following agencies for CE credit:
Pennsylvania Coroners Education Board
Missouri Bar Association
Missouri P.O.S.T. (Peace Officers Standards and Training)
Missouri Coroners and Medical Examiners Association
Missouri Bureau of Emergency Medicine
Indiana Law Enforcement Board
Illinois Local Government and Law Enforcement Agency
Georgia Coroner's Training Council
American Nurses Association
American Medical Association
American College of Emergency Physicians
American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators
American Academy of Family Physicians
Academy of Professional Funeral Practice
Masters 14 Conference
The Department of Pathology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine presents their 14th Masters Conference this July 25-28, 2011. This Conference is designed to provide the veteran, trained medicolegal death investigator with the latest advancements in the forensic sciences. Attendees are expected to be knowledgeable of basic death investigation techniques. The 2011 Masters Conference topics have been chosen with the practical educational needs of the medicolegal death investigator in mind. A nationally recognized faculty will present subject matter that will be useful to the attendees. The Masters Conference is conducted every two years during the late summer to provide a colloquium on a regular basis for those who wish to keep current on issues in the field of death investigation. The topics change in each Masters Conference to reflect new information developing at that time. This specific program will not be repeated again at any future Masters Conference.
Conference Location:
Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Learning Resource Center
3545 Vista, St. Louis, MO. 63104
This years topics include:
Management of High Profile Fatality Cases Stephen Cina, M.D
Lessons Learned in Mass Fatality Management Frank DePaolo, RPA-C
Crime Scene Methodology on the Battlefield Robert Gaffney, MFS
OSHA Death Investigations: Occupational Fatalities Cindy Zastrow, MS
Lessons Learned on Shaken Baby Cases in the UK Det. Chief Inspector Philip Wheeler
Controversies on Abusive Head Trauma Robert Block, M.D.
Investigation and Prosecution of Serious Physical
Abuse and Child Homicide Cases Brian Holmgren, D.A.
Making the Law Keep It's Promise Lt. Mark Wynn
The Medicolegal Investigation of Recreational
Diving Deaths James Caruso, M.D.
Miami Death Scene Investigation Emma Lew, M.D.
The Medical Examiner and Coroner Work Stress
and Health Study, Findings and Implications Elizabeth Brondolo, PhD.
Murder by Poisons John Trestrail, III, RPh.
Heroin: A New Look at AN Old Drug of Abuse James Filkins, M.D., J.D., PhD
Testifying In Court; What to Expect in Light
of the NAS Report Angali Swienton, J.D.
Determining the Manner of Death in Equivocal Death
Investigations; Homicide, Suicide, Accident, or Natural Vernon Geberth, MS, MPA
Registration: $775 Prior to 06/24/2011, $825 afterwards. Pre-Registration is strongly advised as conference size is limited.
Basic Registration fee includes admission to conference sessions (four days), course materials, a Welcoming Reception and Course Dinner, Complimentaty bus transportation is provided between the conference and Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront hotel daily. Pre-registration is required for the daily catered lunches.
Conference Registrar:
Vickey Goelzhauser (314)977-5970
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On-Line Training (Not Yet Approved for Mandatory Training Credit) |
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(SUIDI) Sudden, Unexplained Infant Deaths Investigation: Death Scene Re-creation
NAME (the National Association of Medical Examiners), in association with RTI International, has produced a Web-based training course for coroners and other medicolegal death scene investigators.
This SUIDI module will be a live web-based course scheduled for 2 PM (EDT) on May 10th, 2011 and will be repeated on June 14th also at 2 PM (EDT). It will be presented by subject matter expert Kathleen Diebold-Hargrave. This course will review the goals of the death scene investigator, including how to conduct a thorough death scene re-creation and how to explain the re-enactment process to the family member/caregiver. This couse is being offered free-of-charge and will take app. 90 minutes. Documentation of attendance will be provided. Sign up for this and the following courses at https://forensiced.org/alltraining.htm
(SUIDI) Sudden, Unexplained Infant Deaths Investigation: Infant Growth and Development
This module is scheduled for May 3, 2011 at 2 PM
(SUIDI) Sudden, Unexplained Infant Deaths Investigation: Infant Growth and Development
This mudule is scheduled for April 14, 2011 at 2 PM
Forensic DNA Training
The President's DNA Initiative at www.dna.gov offers free, self-pace online courses designed to help coroners with identification, preservation, and collection of DNA evidence. You will have to register online. Look for courses for law enforcement officers.
University of Florida
Online Certificate Program in Forensic Death Investigation
The online graduate certificate in Forensic Death Investigation is provided by the College of Pharmacy by offering courses in collaboration with UF's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Department of Anthropology and the University of Edinburgh College of Medicine. It focuses on the investigation of crime and death using forensic pathology, anthropology, and DNA analysis.
Upon completion of the 15-credit certificate program students will receive a University of Florida Certificate in Forensic Death Investigation.
Fore more information go to www.forensicscience.ufl.edu
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