Medical Examiner
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<p>We provide accurate, timely, dignified, compassionate and professional death investigative
services for the residents of Miami-Dade County, together with education, consultation
and research for local and national medical, legal, academic and law enforcement communities.</p>
Workshops & Seminars
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Methods of discovery and documentation relating to death investigation, crime scene and general photography are covered in detail along with related biomedical and forensic photography techniques.
Five-day training courses are offered several times a year in the medical and legal aspects of death.
Specialized methods on how to get fingerprints from a body in different states of composition
About Us
<p>Through the use of <a href="/global/medicalexaminer/pathology.page">forensic
pathology</a> we combine the efforts of legal and law enforcement investigations with
those of medicine and science to ascertain the facts surrounding deaths, particularly
the cause and manner of death.</p>
<p>On a daily basis we provide personal services to bereaved next-of-kin who call
and visit us seeking help. Each decedent draws an investigating police agency as a
consequence of the jurisdiction in which the death occurs, and each decedent will
be followed by family members.</p>
<p>We provide low-cost disposition for abandoned, unclaimed human remains and for
deceased members of indigent Miami-Dade County families.</p>
<p>We also host forensic seminars for professionals and students from around the world.</p>
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Resources
Florida Medical Examiner System
Florida statutes place certain categories of death under medical examiner jurisdiction. Generally medical examiners investigate all non-natural deaths within their districts as well as a small number of natural deaths as outlined in the statutes. Florida Statute 406 and Administrative Code 11-G.
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner corresponds with the 11th judicial district. Learn more about the statewide system:
- FDLE - Medical Examiners Commission website
- F.A.M.E. (Florida Association of Medical Examiners)
Organ & Tissue Donation
In a concerted effort to provide patients much needed organ and tissue transplants, the ME cooperates closely with:
