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Fee-for Service Autopsies
This list is offered as a service to those seeking a pathologist to perform
an autopsy. The list consists of members of the College of American Pathologists
who have expressed a willingness in performing autopsies on a fee-for-service
basis. All of these members are Board-certified pathologists. None of
them has paid to be included on this list.
View list of autopsy consultants
CAP members can request to be listed as a fee-for-service
autopsy consultant. If you are a CAP member pathologist, log in to access
the request form.
Talking Points for Pathologists Confronting
Legislation Restricting the Use of Images
Pathologists use autopsy images to teach emergency response professionals,
nurses, police, coroners, attorneys, physicians, medical students and
others. Access talking points to use
when confronting legislation restricting image use.
Guidelines for Cooperation Between Pathologists
and Funeral Professionals
At the request of the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA), the
College of American Pathologists (CAP) revised these
guidelines (PDF, 103 K). Input was obtained from funeral directors
and from pathologists serving on the CAP Autopsy and Forensic Pathology
Committees.
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Basic Competencies in Forensic Pathology: A Forensic Pathology Primer (2006)
Introduction to Autopsy Technique, Step-by-Step Diagrams (2005)
Autopsy
Performance and Reporting, 2nd Edition
Handbook
of Forensic Pathology, 2nd Edition
Forensic Pathology Program CD-ROM (FR) offers Category 1 Continuing Medical Education as well as Continuing Education for non-physicians. To order the FR Program, call the Customer Contact Center at 800-323-4040, press 1, then 3.
Sample FR Case (WORD 2.3MB)
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors
American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators
eMedicine
Florida Association of Medical Examiners
International Association for Identification
National Association of Medical Examiners
Society of Forensic Toxicologists
NAME Position Paper on the Medical Examiner Release of Organs and Tissues for Transplantation
(PDF, 223 K)
 Please note that you must be logged in as a CAP member to view the policy.
Technological Adjuncts to the Autopsy
Optimizing Death Investigations and Forensic Sciences Practices
Criteria for Autopsies
Restrictions on the Uses of Autopsy Materials
Payment and Performance of the Autopsy Service
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
Certification of Death
Observation of an Autopsy as Punishment
Informed Consent for Autopsy
Retention of Laboratory Records and Materials
Autopsy Organ and Tissue Retention
Requirements for Chief Medical Examiners
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Forensic pathology: Forensic pathology
is the subspecialty of pathology that directs its efforts to the examination
of living or dead persons in order to provide an opinion concerning the
cause, mechanism, and manner of disease, injury or death; the identification
of persons; the significance of biological and physical evidence; the
correlation and/or reconstruction of wounds, wound patterns, and sequences;
and conducting comprehensive medicolegal death investigations. Forensic
pathology applies techniques of pathology to the needs and protection
of public health, public safety, quality assurance, education in medicine,
research, jurisprudence, and the administration of justice. Its highest
goal is the development of strategies to prevent injury, disease, and
death.
Forensic pathologist: A forensic pathologist is a pathologist with special training and experience in forensic pathology who is actively engaged in medicolegal autopsies and death investigations. Forensic pathologists shall be board-certified by the American Board of Pathology or American Osteopathic Board of Pathology after appropriate training and passing a rigorous examination, or a non-USA based pathologist with equivalent certification. The practicing forensic pathologist is licensed in one or more states; he/she is skilled in conducting death investigations, interpreting injuries in both fatal and non-fatal cases, performing medicolegal examinations, determining disease/injury causation to an appropriate degree of medical certainty and determining cause and manner of death.
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