Medical Examiner is an e-learning project commissioned by the Department of Health and delivered by e-Learning for Healthcare (e-LfH) and the Intercollegiate Working Group on Training for Medical Examiners. The project supports the implementation of the Government’s reform of the process of death certification in England and Wales.
It will help deliver the curriculum developed by the Working Group providing much of the essential training required by newly recruited Medical Examiners.
The training modules will train Medical Examiners in conducting independent medical scrutiny of cause of death, in providing advice on the process of referral to the coroner and, where invited, in providing medical advice to Coroners themselves.
The legislative framework for implementing these important reforms is included in the Coroners and Justice Bill. The Bill was introduced in Parliament on 14 January 2009.
For more information on the death certification process please visit the Department of Health website.
