Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine Forensic Pathology Fellowship

The Department of Pathology developed a high-quality forensic pathology fellowship at the Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine (WMed). At WMed, the Medical Examiner’s Office serves thirteen counties in Michigan, with additional postmortem examination coverage for counties without access to a forensic pathologist. The leadership of this program is comprised of six (seven when fully staffed) forensic pathologists (one of which is also a neuropathologist), two forensic anthropologists, a forensic toxicologist, and several medicolegal death investigators. Fellows are provided with best-practice training and opportunities to become leaders in forensic pathology. In addition to training additional forensic pathologists, access to students and their exposure to forensic pathology will result in a higher-than-average number of students pursuing forensic pathology as their career choice.