By: Madison Mills

 I would need a undergraduate degree, a medical degree, plus a bachelor degree.  I could go to Upper Iowa University. Which is located in Fayette, Iowa. This college offers a lot of the classes I would need.  I would need four years to get my undergraduate studies, with four years of medical school, then 4-5 years of Anatomical/Clinical pathology residency, with 1-2 years of forensic pathology fellowship. So about years old studies.

 Things that would help for this job is a strong stomach, and be able to work with computers.  I could gain experience by doing internship/residency.  I am suited for this career because I am always interested in science, and computers. So this way I will always want to learn more, and it comes easier to me.

 When you first start this job, you can make about 115,000 yearly. If I do move out to New York or a bigger city, I would make about 200,000, but I think I will want to stay around Iowa, for awhile.  The most I have read about is 400,000 yearly, but that’s when you have worked there for a long time.  Factors are how long you have been working there and where you are working.  There could be travel expenses, because sometimes you could get transferred for a certain crime.

 There is a choice of medical and dental plans. Long and short term disability, life insurance, a retirement plan, deferred compensation plan, 12 paid holidays, personal leave days, sick time and a generous vacation plan  The safety issues are, that my boss will give me safety equipment/and the things I will need.

 I would be able to get into this after I have completed college, and have had experience in internship.  The factors that influence this job are, your grades in college and how much experience you have.  I hope that my growth potential is high, because eventually I would like to be the head of my corp.  My job you be a demand, because when ever a crime happens I will have to go there.

 The advancement opportunities in my career are that after you work there for many years and become good at what you do, your boss might send you to go somewhere else and work on a specific crime, that needs more experience.  This doesn’t require extra schooling or anything, but that might help to make you better at what you are doing.

 Most people that have enrolled in this job usually are at work at 6:30 a.m.  When you arrive at work, first most people check there voic , reply to letters and s. You must limit this time to about an hour so your whole day isn't spent doing this task.  Around 8:00 a.m. they take a trip to mortuary, where the autopsies are formed along with all the other test that might be necessary. Along with running test, they also might review police reports, medical records, these all might help trying to find the cause of death.  After looking through some files and documents, its time to get tissue samples. You have to get all the samples and test done before the final report is written. There is a report written on each case.  I will also have to attend all the case conferences, which will have other forensic medical, police, and legal officers. And some medical examiner also tutor others, so along with doing all this stuff you also need to teach.  Getting ready to leave, should be around 6 or 6:30 p.m. That is if you don’t have any meeting scheduled. You could stay and work, but to be home around 6ish you will need to take some files home and read over them.

 The usual hours are about from 6-6:30 a.m. to 6-6:30 p.m. so its about 12 hours working.  Best parts of the day would be doing all the test and exams.  The worst part would be reading through the files, and sitting at the meetings. Those wouldn’t be challenging as more in boring, but then again they are exciting just not as much as the others would be.

 Some skills/traits that I already have is that I am very interested in this kind of science and I also want to learn more. And that I can easily learn science. It seems that it just comes naturally. I also don’t get sick stomach feeling when I seeing dead things.  I don’t have much real life experience, other than just the science I will take in school. Which I am almost sure that we dissect cats, cow eyes, and frogs.

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