AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATORS Information

The American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators (ABMDI) is a voluntary national, not-for-profit, independent professional certification board that has been established to promote the highest standards of practice for medicolegal death investigators. ABMDI certifies individuals who have the proven knowledge and skills necessary to perform medicolegal death investigations as set forth in the National Institutes of Justice 1999 publication Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator (2011 updated version available). ABMDI was created, designed, and developed by veteran, practicing medicolegal death investigators who were involved in the development of Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator. It will also assist the courts and public in evaluating competence of the certified individual. In 2005, the ABMDI was first accredited by the Forensic Specialties Accreditation Board and reaccredited in 2010 and 2015. The goal of FSAB is to establish a mechanism whereby the forensic community can assess, recognize and monitor organizations or professional boards that certify individual forensic scientists or other forensic specialists.