Training, Qualifications, and Career Advancement Potential

        Since they will always be crime, and always be deaths, there will always be a need for forensic pathologists. Although it takes at least thirteen years to get certified, once someone is a licensed forensic pathologist, they can work for over fifty years! One must go to college, go to medical school, and then partake in a five year certification process. According to Barry Franklin, "Certification can be a 4 to 5 year process that requires completion of graduate-level medical education in anatomic and/or clinical pathology, as well as a forensic pathology subspecialty". After attending medical school, one must perform at least fifty autopsies, and then must be evaluated by the ABP. Certification must be reviewed every ten years as well. Opposite of most careers, forensic pathologists tend to get better as they get older, because of the variety of experiences they encounter.