By: Madison Mills
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I would need a undergraduate degree, a
medical degree, plus a bachelor degree.
I could go to Upper Iowa University. Which is
located in Fayette, Iowa. This college offers a
lot of the classes I would need.
I would need four years to get my
undergraduate studies, with four years of
medical school, then 4-5 years of
Anatomical/Clinical pathology residency, with
1-2 years of forensic pathology fellowship. So
about 13-15 years old studies.
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Things that would help for this job is a strong
stomach, and be able to work with
computers.
I could gain experience by doing
internship/residency.
I am suited for this career because I am
always interested in science, and computers.
So this way I will always want to learn more,
and it comes easier to me.
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When you first start this job, you can make about
115,000 yearly. If I do move out to New York or a
bigger city, I would make about 200,000, but I
think I will want to stay around Iowa, for awhile.
The most I have read about is 400,000 yearly,
but that’s when you have worked there for a long
time.
Factors are how long you have been working
there and where you are working.
There could be travel expenses, because
sometimes you could get transferred for a certain
crime.
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There is a choice of medical and dental plans.
Long and short term disability, life insurance,
a retirement plan, deferred compensation
plan, 12 paid holidays, personal leave days,
sick time and a generous vacation plan
The safety issues are, that my boss will give
me safety equipment/and the things I will
need.
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I would be able to get into this after I have
completed college, and have had experience
in internship.
The factors that influence this job are, your
grades in college and how much experience
you have.
I hope that my growth potential is high,
because eventually I would like to be the head
of my corp.
My job you be a demand, because when ever
a crime happens I will have to go there.
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The advancement opportunities in my career
are that after you work there for many years
and become good at what you do, your boss
might send you to go somewhere else and
work on a specific crime, that needs more
experience.
This doesn’t require extra schooling or
anything, but that might help to make you
better at what you are doing.
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Most people that have enrolled in this job usually are at work at 6:30
a.m.
When you arrive at work, first most people check there voicemail, reply
to letters and emails. You must limit this time to about an hour so your
whole day isn't spent doing this task.
Around 8:00 a.m. they take a trip to mortuary, where the autopsies are
formed along with all the other test that might be necessary. Along with
running test, they also might review police reports, medical records,
these all might help trying to find the cause of death.
After looking through some files and documents, its time to get tissue
samples. You have to get all the samples and test done before the final
report is written. There is a report written on each case.
I will also have to attend all the case conferences, which will have other
forensic medical, police, and legal officers. And some medical examiner
also tutor others, so along with doing all this stuff you also need to
teach.
Getting ready to leave, should be around 6 or 6:30 p.m. That is if you
don’t have any meeting scheduled. You could stay and work, but to be
home around 6ish you will need to take some files home and read over
them.
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The usual hours are about from 6-6:30 a.m.
to 6-6:30 p.m. so its about 12 hours
working.
Best parts of the day would be doing all the
test and exams.
The worst part would be reading through the
files, and sitting at the meetings. Those
wouldn’t be challenging as more in boring,
but then again they are exciting just not as
much as the others would be.
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Some skills/traits that I already have is that I
am very interested in this kind of science and
I also want to learn more. And that I can
easily learn science. It seems that it just
comes naturally. I also don’t get sick stomach
feeling when I seeing dead things.
I don’t have much real life experience, other
than just the science I will take in school.
Which I am almost sure that we dissect cats,
cow eyes, and frogs.
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_a_medical_examiner_make_a_year
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