Key points
- The Collaborating Office for Medical Examiners and Coroners (COMEC) has compiled trainings related to medical and legal (medicolegal) death investigations.
- These trainings are produced or sponsored by CDC.
- Additional trainings are available through the CDC TRAIN online learning system.
Death investigations and reporting
Cause-of-death reporting
- Improving Cause-of-Death Reporting
- Investigation and Certification of Drug Toxicity Deaths
- Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Investigation: A Systematic Training Program for the Professional Infant Death Investigation Specialist
- Video: Certifying Deaths due to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)
- Webinar: Guidance for Certifying Deaths due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Death certification
Cause-of-death information is valuable to families and to public health—and getting it right matters.
Disasters
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More trainings can be found in the CDC TRAIN online learning system. You can search for and complete courses through the portal. Some trainings provide continuing education credits.
The TRAIN Learning Network is a catalog of shared public health training opportunities. It also contains relevant resources for medical examiners, coroners, and death investigators.
Featured trainings
Content Source:
National Center for Health Statistics