The City of Philadelphia seeks applicants for Associate Medical Examiner. The selected candidate will join a group of 6 other forensic pathologists in an urban office that receives about 5200 reports of death annually and performs about 2400 postmortem examinations annually (this number includes full autopsies, limited dissections, and external examinations).

The Office has in-house toxicology, histology, and cardiac pathology services. Affiliate staff in anthropology, odontology, and neuropathology are readily available as needed. Due to our affiliations with multiple area medical centers, consultations with radiologists and clinical specialists are frequent and easily obtained. Our staff pathologists benefit from faculty appointments in the Drexel University College of Medicine, including online library access to eJournals.

Responsibilities include:

Reviewing reports of deaths received from hospitals, private physicians, and police and determining jurisdiction of cases

Determining the need for postmortem examination and orders bodies removed to the office of the medical examiner

Directing the activities of autopsy technician in preparing bodies for autopsy

Performing autopsies and obtaining specimens for laboratory analysis

Directing the photographing of the body prior to, during and subsequent to the postmortem examination

Determining the cause and manner of death

Preparing reports of findings and furnishing law enforcement officials with evidence of a medical and scientific nature including medical evidence of criminal involvement

Reviewing current literature in the field and researching histories of prior cases for background information in formulating opinions

Testifying in court as an expert witness