Forensic pathologists, or medical examiners, are specially trained physicians who examine ... To find an opportunity, contact your municipal police department or county sheriff's office and inquire ...

The pathologists in the office are full faculty in the Forensic Division of the Department of Pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. This arrangement has served Jefferson County well ...

They specialize in determining the causes of sudden, unexpected or violent deaths. But according to the National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. is facing a critical shortage of these professionals.

"I may have overcompensated," he jokes. Omalu produced his forensic masterpiece in 2002, as an unknown pathologist in the coroner's office in Allegheny County, Pa. One day, he was assigned to ...