Medical Examiner

educational requirements

• Educational requirements start off with a bachelor degree. 
• The bachelor degree required is either chemistry, biology, or pathology.
• Medical school is required after the student obtains bachelor degree.
• A five year residency program is required after medical school graduation.

Salary

• The salary for a ME is $105,000 to $500,000
• This all depends on the degree that the student gets.

job responsibilities

• The main job of a medical examiner includes:
• learning cause of death
• studying organs, tissue, cells, and bodily fluids
• analyze blood and DNA
• perform autopsies and testifying in courts

Relation to chemistry

• The medical examiner is mostly forensics based in school.
• The ME does depends on chemistry for finding:
• chemical abnormality in blood (drug or alcohol abuse)

Job outlook

• Job outlook for a medical examiner is great!
• Let's be real here, someone is always dying so they can't run out of work!

Citations

• education-portal.com
• www.forensicsciencecareer.net
• explorehealthcareers.org
• degreedirectory.org