In the United States, pathologists are medical doctors (M.D.) or doctors of osteopathic medicine (D.O.), that have completed a four-year undergraduate program, four years of medical school training, and three to four years of postgraduate training in the form of a pathology residency.
So if you're going for your bachelor's, you need to take a lot of math and sciences, to get you into medical school.
But there is a shorter path. Forensic anthropology does not require medical school.
Forensic anthropology is the application of the science of physical anthropology and human osteology (the study of the human skeleton) in a legal setting, most often in criminal cases where the victim's remains are more or less skeletonized. A forensic anthropologist can also assist in the identification of deceased individuals whose remains are decomposed, burned, mutilated or otherwise unrecognizable.
Either way, it's a lot of math and science. But not quite so much for the anthropology.
2007-03-11 16:08:41
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