General
Professional Organizations
- CAP: Autopsy Topic Center
- CAP: Forensic Pathology Topic Center
- The Royal College of Pathology
- National Association of Medical Examiners
- National Funeral Directors Association
Resources for learners
- An approach to the complete autopsy
- Checklist for the routine dissection of specific organs
- Autopsy Dissection Videos
- Initial Organ Block
- Chest Organ Block
- Heart
- Detailed heart dissection videos broken down by various parts including histological follow up videos
- Cardiac Conduction system dissection
- Abdominal Organ Block
- Upper GI Block
- Pancreas & Spleen
- Liver & Bowel
- Urinary Tract
- Brain & Spinal Cord (fixed)
- Fetal autopsy resources:
- Obstetricalpathology.com (go to: “Autopsy Manual” on the right hand side of the page for excellent articles broken down by each organ system)
Regulatory Information
- Coroner/Medical Examiner Laws, by State (2015)
- Deaths Requiring Investigation, Comparisons Among States (2015)
- National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (including Infectious Diseases)
- Birth and Death Certificates (2003)
- State Definitions and Reporting Requirements for Fetal/Maternal Deaths (1997)
- Guidelines for Safe Work Practices (2012) (Autopsy starting on page 40)
Death Certification
- Physicians’ Handbook on Medical Certification of Death (2003)
- Hanzlick’s Cause of Death and the Death Certificate
- ME & Coroners’ Handbook on Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting (2003)
- A Guide for Manner of Death Classification
- WHO Recommendations for conducting an external inspection of a body and filling in the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death
Online Adult Organ Weight Calculators
- CAP Autopsy Committee Calculator
- AutopsyPathology.net/Dr. Andrew Connolly
- Lund Forensic Medicine Heart Weight Calculator
This list of resources is compiled with acknowledgement and credit to Dr. Andrew Connolly and his website AutopsyPathology.net
