ABMDI Press Release

Sharon Morris, Park County Coroner, has successfully passed the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI) Registry examination for professional death investigators. She is considered a Diplomate of the ABMDI. A Registered Medicolegal Death Investigator is an individual who, according to ABMDI criteria, has demonstrated the professional knowledge, practical skills, and ethical conduct necessary to perform a proper medicolegal death investigation as required by the National Institutes of Justice publication Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator.

The ABMDI is a national, not-for-profit, independent, professional certification board that has been established to promote the highest standards of practice for medicolegal death investigators. Certification by the ABMDI requires that the applicant pass a 240 item objective examination which proves that s/he has attained knowledge and has successfully demonstrated competence in performing 260 skills necessary to conduct a quality, comprehensive medicolegal death investigation.

The ABMDI was created in 1998 with support from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was created by veteran, practicing medicolegal death investigators from throughout the United States who were involved in the development of standards supported by the National Institutes of Justice.