November 7-8, 2008
Des Moines Golf and Country Club,
1600 Jordan Creek Parkway,
West Des Moines, IA 50266
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The Iowa Association of County Medical Examiners
Annual Fall Meeting
Cost:
Physician Member
$200 (2 days)
$125 (Friday only)
$125 (Saturday only) |
Physician Nonmember
$300 (2 days)
$150 (Friday only)
$150 (Saturday only) |
Nonphysician Member
$100 (2 days)
$50 (Friday only)
$50 (Saturday only) |
Nonphysician Nonmember
$175 (2 days)
$88 (Friday only)
$88 (Saturday only) |
Student/ Resident
$50 (2 days)
$25 (Friday only)
$25 (Saturday only) |
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Following participation in this CME activity, participants should be able to:
- Explore the physical layout and design of the State Medical Examiner facility.
- Recognize the role of the medical examiner in scene investigation.
- Identify the codes and rules governing death certification in Iowa.
- Recognize the common errors that occur when certifying deaths.
- Differentiate between mechanism and cause of death.
- Summarize recent legislation and administrative rules related to medical examiners.
- Review confidentiality of records, particularly those pertaining to releasing records.
- Identify the rights and requirements regarding subpoenas and testimony.
- Explain laws and rules regarding admonition of autopsy by families and religious objections to autopsies.
- Recognize a variety of case types where death is related to medical therapy.
- Describe the steps necessary in investigating medical therapy-related deaths.
- Recognize the utility of baseline mortality statistics and comparison of statewide increases in deaths of unknown etiology.
- Explain the rationale for emphasis on improved and more uniform data collection at time of death.
- Utilize and/or form a partnership between medical examiner and public health resources on a local and state level.
- Discuss the symptoms and findings of the most dangerous household poisons.
- Discuss changes in the Iowa Code which effect death certification in Iowa.
- Identify the types of deaths requiring additional investigation and autopsies.
- Identify the role of the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) in disaster response.
- Explain the DMORT morgue operations.
- Describe how to reconstruct a homicide scene.
- Explain how blood pattern analysis evidence often mirrors the crime scene.
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Conference Brochure and Registration (pdf)
State Medical Examiner's Newsletter 9-1-08 (pdf) |