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Specialty Description

Forensic pathology is the application of the principles of medicine and pathology to the study of sudden, unexpected, suspicious, and violent death to determine the mechanism, cause, and manner of death (1).

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  1. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)