Coroner

Excellent course

Excellent refresher course

The child death section was especially helpful. Thankfully it has been a long time since our last child death and this section of the class reinforced the need for having the doll ready with placed and found cards. also inspired me to be sure a supply of paper and plastic evidence bags are included in the bag with the doll.

Very Good

Good information provided in a comfortable and complete format.

Over all class

I enjoyed the class, Only thing I would have liked better is to have heard the questions being asked in the class on the video.

death investigation

it was a good course. wish I could see the slides a little more closely. some of them were blurry

This is a very informative course!!!!

Very well done!!!

Very interesting course

Was a great course. Learned something’s new and refreshed on things I may have forgotten.

Dead Head Done

Great informative class! I enjoyed the basics and review and learning more information on all subjects.

Great

Great

Response and understanding a death scene

Excellent information with good explanations

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Jonesjh3

very through class. EXCELLENT

I appreciate that I have the option to take these virtual classes, especially with COVID.

2020 mississippi ceu bundle

It was great.

Response and Understanding a Death Scene

GREAT INFORMATION, THANKS!!!

5

5

Good Class

Good Class

Excellent material

Good review and understanding

helpful

Death scene investigation

very good course and content

Excellent

Great Material that is useful.

Helpful

It was great

Basics of responding to and investigating various death scenes/incidents

Good basic coverage of the topic. It would be nice to hear the questions/answers offered by the audience and to have zoomed in to better see the slides presented.

Response and Understanding a Death Scene

Response and understanding death scene

Very informative

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found it very helpful

5 stars

states it clearly

great presentation---plenty of common sense and actual use idea.

Response and Understanding a Death Scene

Good

Excellent overview of the topics with really good detail of the subject areas. Sometimes had trouble seeing the screen. Instructor was great.

Great presentation and information provided

Great course information

Response and Understanding a Death Scene

was good

Was Good

Respond and Understand a Death Scene

Covered a wide variety of scenarios and scene investigations including infant death

Response and Understanding a Death Scene

Good

Well covered

Response and handling of death scene

Great resource for LEO and MLDI

Will recommend to our administration and my co-workers!

Overall a 9.5

Too much information at once. It took me two days to work thru this course because of the amount of information. I'd suggest that you improve the ability to incorporate the slide series with your lecture and make it a seamless video approx 25 min in duration x4-6. It'll be easier and less distracting. In addition, I missed the animals in the first two sections, either they were displayed too briefly or I simply didn't notice them.

Death Scene

Adequate Title

Good Information

Adequate Title

Good Information

Very informative

Working with Medico-Legal personnel, I found this course to be very informative and one that I know will be of use to me in my field.

The title fits the information presented

Great information that is very helpful

Not the usual high quality Dake training

The class room presentation style was not helpful for me. Waiting for students to answer questions and then not hearing those answers was a waste of time. Pictures, graphs and other information on the classroom screen was difficult to see. Also there was a lot of redundant material that had been covered in the prior course.

Ditacademy review

Very detailed program

Detail oriented and well presented

The information throughout the course is detailed, thoroughly covered, and presented in a concise manner. On a whimsical note, the presenter's voice sounds like Steve Carrell, which was not a negative issue, because of the topic and subject manner. These courses should be taken by any level of officer, agent, or commanding officer of all departments as a refresher, to ensure protocol and crime scene techniques continue to be followed, and nothing is overlooked. GREAT PRESENTATION!

It took you through in a good way that everything followed in a natural progression of events

It was very good and easy to understand

Response and Understanding a Death Scene

great class and useful information

Topics were right on

Great very informative

Excellent material

The material provided was easy to follow and understand.

4 STAR

4 STAR

4 STAR

4 star

excellent

excellent

Death Investigation

MUCH better than going to a cold/hot room with uncomfortable chairs.

RESPONSE AND UNDERSTANDING A DEATH SCENE

THIS WAS A VERY GOOD AND INFORMATIVE COURSE.

great

Awesome job

great

good info

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Excellent!

This was a great class; for both patrol and new investigators. Provided a lot of information and made the process as interactive as possible.

Online Response & Understanding a Death Scene course is great!!

Thanks...I enjoyed this online course!! The instructor keeps your attention and the way it's broken up into sections makes it easy to follow along.

Great course

Super easy to follow, not overwhelming and he is entertaining to listen to.

Death investigations

Response and Understanding A Death Scene

The course is easy to follow and is taught in an understandable way. The additional resources made available will guide me in the correct way to approach and process various death scenes. Very informative.

Very good course

Nice supplement to my Forensic Medicine education. Thank you!

very informative

Death Scene investigations

Overall this was a very well presented course that covered a lot of really great information for beginners and served as a refresher for those with more experience.

Great

Very informational.

Notes on Class

I know this is a brief overview and there are likely some things that can't be controlled or can't really be covered in a short time, but here are notes or thoughts on class material and presentations: When reviewing manner of death, while the main categories (N, A, S, H, U) are essential, most states commonly use an additional manner termed as "medical misadventure or therapeutic complication/s" to describe a death resulting from known complications of medical procedures. Depending on discretion or policies of offices (in exception to Felony Murder assignments), manners are assigned by MEs with intention of purely describing the method or mode or death (without assignment of blame). To many MEs or coroners, police are responsible in assigning charges to a suspect while MEs/Cs will explain how someone died to more appropriately stay w/in the scope of their responsibilities. MEs assigning an OD as a homicide is going to be viewed as stepping on the toes of police authority in some jurisdictions. I would recommend avoiding phrases such as "going with your gut" and encourage fact-based observations or perhaps use statements such as "based on my training." While the instructor likely understands the context of objective notes, an attorney will eat up an officer or professional that says things like ‘I went with my gut’ or ‘I had a feeling’; Attorneys love this because they know they can use it against an officer in court to rule his/her procedures as inadmissible. The argument is that they were based on prejudice rather than sound proceedings. The slides were difficult to see and read online. At times, they were not even utilized or just were passed over without explanation. It would be beneficial to alter presentations to fit each course and perhaps, for online students, instead just show the slides and have audio of the lecture instead of classroom video to help with the quality. The V pattern noted on hanging decedents is not only great in showing a pattern, but also can indicate the point of suspension, which is great if the ligature is removed prematurely by family or LE. Chemical suicides are good to include, but it seemed limited. Hydrogen Sulfide use in suicides is less common (albeit interesting), but perhaps giving more detail about CO ones would be more relevant for the audience. CO may also be created thru the mix of Formic and Sulphuric Acids rather than more traditional ways of car exhausts or grills i.e., food for thought. Entomology seemed pointless to have in this course, the explanation was vague and a bit contradictory. Initially stated that activity was only temperature dependent, then later was stated that humidity and many other factors matter. Maybe have an entomologist cover this, or speak to an entomologist to obtain the basics they wish an officer or investigator knew-- OR just get rid of it completely. When discussing documentation of injuries, generalization was encouraged. I think the remainder of the presentation should encourage that as well. Just like a stab wound could later be determined as a GSW, defense-like wounds may not be caused from another person at all. Postmortem "injuries" may just be postmortem factors (a scar that splits open looking like a stab wound i.e.) so avoiding suggestive terms is also key. Powder burns should never be used to describe GSWs, more ideal to say "stippling" to avoid misinterpretation of wounds. Investigators at medicolegal agencies, or police officers are not really experts in court so interpretation is commonly left up to a doctor or highly trained expert. Generic terminology and descriptions are safest for reports unless the expertise can be backed up thru education & training. I would either tailor presentations to fit the background of the presenter or recommend utilizing various instructors (meaning ones that perhaps have experience in other parts of the country or world). OR, perhaps learning more about other jurisdictions in the country by speaking to them about their policies or investigations would be beneficial. Taking the clothes off of a body at a scene is completely forbidden in many authorities (though yes investigators are allowed to move clothes for proper examination). Also, many jurisdictions will state that a weapon should never be brought to a morgue or ME's office for both safety and evidentiary concerns. Some state statutes actually specifically address such issues so good to make a mental note of such. While all forensic professionals usually say things we shouldn't as we have to cope with the terrible things we see, we also know that there is a time and place. When it comes to E-learning that is available essentially anywhere in the world, colorful phrasing should be avoided. I would recommend not repeatedly talking about EMS and their "hauling of dead babies." And poking fun at binary people in your discussion on infant death, probably not a great idea when you have no idea what cultures are present in your audience. Hopefully things are not seen in too negative of a light! So I will add that the easy availability of the class is appreciated. The navigation of it is user-friendly. The sound quality was fair and most of the time, you could hear the speaker clearly. Some typos and grammatical issues here and there (hanged not hung, misspellings on the slides) but a little tweaking will easily fix those errors. DITA is a good source for easily accessible, continuing education despite what group you may need them for.

Great!

This class was entertaining and informative!

Solid Training Course

This is thorough review of Death Investigation. The instructor discusses what needs to be done from multiple perspectives: patrol officer, police investigator, medical examiner. In particular, I learned more about petechaia, drowning, overdoses, and infant death.

Response and understanding a death scene

It's been 10-years since completing a death scene investigation course. Was both a great refresher as well as learning information I hadn't previously known or thought about. While I understand why fast forward is not provided, I do suggest rewind or replay last 30 seconds. There were times while taking notes I did't pause play then missed a topic discussion or "blackboard" change.

Great Course

This course provides the beginner personnel on a death scene with sufficient knowledge of the process that the death investigator navigates while working the scene.

Response and Understanding a Death Scene

Pretty good. I would have liked the instructor to repeat what the students were saying.

Response and Understanding a Death Scene

Useful information, great examples and energized presentation. Very well done.

Unprofessional Instructor

I have very little to say regarding this course. The information was valuable and appropriate however the instructor was tactless and used what I felt were racist and sexist comments. Any instructor or prefaces "let me be PC" then uses the phrase "too many chiefs and not enough Indians" should not be an instructor. This among many other reasons made this entire training unpalatable and in all honesty hard to finish.

Death investigation

good class, informative, and helpful.

Informative

Well structured and informative.

Death Scene Investigation

Awesome online course, the material on the screen could be zoomed in when possible, otherwise, it is hard to see what the materials and what the instructor was referring to. Thanks!

response & understanding a death scene

Thought it was very easy to understand, concise, educational and thorough. The instructor was well versed in topics & explained it well.

Refreshing and detailed

I have attended dozens of death scenes and found this course engaging and interesting despite it being online. I was kind of skeptical taking such a long course online when I consider myself pretty experienced at investigating deaths, but it was a refreshing break from the classroom setting and the information presented provided a lot of solid information, especially the infant death segment. I understand the videos were filmed during a live event but my only suggestion would be to lengthen that section by adding more presentations, or at least a voice-over PowerPoint.