{"id":49,"date":"2019-06-05T16:15:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pacoroners.org\/cms\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:54:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:54:17","slug":"education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pacoroners.org\/cms\/education\/","title":{"rendered":"Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4003e078a73398dfe9c4bc2916d6a158\" style=\"font-size:17px\">The Pennsylvania State Coroners&#8217; Association is an advocate for continued, meaningful education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7ce88a645369dd4a311fe89364da34a2\" style=\"font-size:17px\">In Pennsylvania, coroners and medical examiners and their chief deputies (or deputy agency directors) are required to be certified by the Coroners&#8217; Education Board, which itself is overseen by the Office of the Attorney General.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5734892422dfa0fbe04697b06b78e377\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Following certification; coroners, medical examiners<sup data-fn=\"15506560-d0c7-4dbd-a3a1-30409502ed4d\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#15506560-d0c7-4dbd-a3a1-30409502ed4d\" id=\"15506560-d0c7-4dbd-a3a1-30409502ed4d-link\">1<\/a><\/sup>  and their deputies must keep their knowledge and training up-to-date with yearly education, or forfeit their certification (and therefore the ability to serve.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4816fdb6836c3753ba1cdbe2beacb8a4\" style=\"font-size:17px\">The Coroners&#8217; Education Board reviews and approves topics which it deems appropriate quarterly, and determines the number of credit-hours each program may award the attendee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a0fede021eb27ed90488e32bf2db4210\" style=\"font-size:17px\"> This continuing education begins with the most modern developments in forensic medicine and pathology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c67b62e60f9ad4932f1f55c74858c693\" style=\"font-size:17px\">In addition to medical information, these trainings make your coroner or medical examiner specialized in traumatic and unexpected deaths: topics such as fatal fire death investigation, blood pattern interpretation, advanced homicide investigation, child death investigation, mass fatality event management, firearms and toolmark training, incised wounds, and blunt and sharp force trauma. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-87f477b7c9c86cb2f28428bc0bc3abed\" style=\"font-size:17px\">Education is the strongest foundation for service to our communities, and we continue to advocate for strong education in valuable topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"background:linear-gradient(135deg,rgba(163,163,163,0.64) 0%,rgb(169,184,195) 100%)\" class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-background\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacoroners.org\/cms\/members-only\/education\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"49\">Education Home<\/a> (this page)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacoroners.org\/cms\/members-only\/education\/upcoming-continuing-education\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"368\">Upcoming Approved Continuing Education Opportunities<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacoroners.org\/cms\/members-only\/education\/training-archive\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"376\">Archived Trainings and Presentations<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacoroners.org\/cms\/members-only\/education\/submit-hours\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn How to Submit Continuing Education Certificates to The Coroner&#8217;s Ed Board<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ub-expand ub-expand\" id=\"ub-expand-28bf3efd-4afd-46f0-84ce-65e13b1fd1ad\" data-scroll-type=\"false\" data-scroll-amount=\"\" data-scroll-target=\"\">\n<div class=\"ub-expand-portion ub-expand-partial wp-block-ub-expand-portion\" id=\"ub-expand-partial-0ff128c5-837b-443e-bb1a-eeb84e9232fa\" aria-hidden=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notice To Coroners Regarding Requirement of Coroners and Deputies to Attend Basic Education<\/h2>\n\n\n\t\t\t<a id=\"ub-expand-toggle-partial-0ff128c5-837b-443e-bb1a-eeb84e9232fa\" class=\"ub-expand-toggle-button\" style=\"text-align: left; 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