This course is approved for 8- hours of continuing education credits by Missouri POST and 5.6 hours by the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators -ABMDI
Who Should Take This Course
- Law Enforcement Patrol Officers/ Supervisors
- Detectives and Investigators
- Medicolegal Death Investigators
- Coroners
- Interested Students
This course takes a comprehensive deep dive into the practice of death notification. The instructor discusses the impact a notification has on a survivor and the legal and moral obligations the notifier bears. Further, the course will discuss how deferring agencies; police, coroners, medical staff, and ems lack training in this area and how what training they do receive will many times be at odds with other agencies ' investigative objectives.
The course will also cover the next-of-kin hierarchy and why this it’s legally important and why it’s important to understand the idea of do-no-harm when making notifications. The course will also discuss safety concerns, best practices, and policy development when it comes to making death notifications.
Lastly, the instructor spends time discussing the difference and best practices when making specialized notifications such as in-custody death, law enforcement death, child death, high profile deaths, and others.
Our online video training and is designed to be interactive with students by random quizzes and, in some cases, a final exam. Student login times, location IP, and activity time within the course are tracked per student by Mixpanel to verify the time spent in the course if needed. Videos cannot be fast-forwarded or skipped, and testing cannot be done until the videos are fully watched.
Many of the videos have a unique symbol or picture that will appear prominently in the video and is part of the test questions, this will ensure the video has been watched, quizzes must be passed with a 100% so missing the proof of watch image will ensure the quiz is not passed and thus the student cannot move forward in the course. Also, all quizzes are presented in random question-answer order so each quiz attempt will have questions and answers in an order different than previously shown. This prevents students from sharing answers with other students.
Certificates will only be available for print after the successful completion of the course material. Each certificate will indicate that it was an online training and will note the approval control number and the CLEE hours given.