Employment prospect of forensic medicine specialty

The employment prospect of forensic medicine major is average.

The current situation of forensic employment is as follows:

1. There is a great demand for grassroots forensic talents.

Over the years, the grass-roots public security departments engaged in online operations have a huge demand for forensic professionals. Many grass-roots public security bureaus have no forensic doctors or lack forensic personnel. However, due to economic reasons, many forensic graduates would rather be unemployed than enter the grassroots.

2. The employment scope of forensic medicine graduates has narrowed, there are obvious regional differences in employment intentions, and employment competition is fierce.

Before 2005, the main employment units of forensic medicine graduates were public security bureau, procuratorate, court, judicial bureau and insurance company. Most of them enter the judicial system to engage in forensic work, and rarely enter the insurance industry and medical-related industries. Individual postgraduate entrance examinations were changed to other professional directions.

3. The instability and uncertainty of employment prospects have increased.

The fundamental change in employment makes forensic doctors' employment no longer secure and their income no longer stable. Due to the fierce competition between judicial administration and becoming civil servants, a large number of graduates turn to social enterprises.

4. The quality of forensic doctors is uneven.

The unique development history of forensic education in China is the main reason for the uneven quality of forensic practitioners. Many forensic doctors have not received systematic professional education in forensic medicine. At the same time, due to the serious shortage of human resources of grassroots forensic workers, many forensic departments are still engaged in forensic professional work by clinicians who have received short-term forensic training. Another phenomenon is that non-professionals constitute their number. Forensics in some areas don't even have a medical background.

Specialized courses of forensic medicine:

The specialized courses of forensic medicine include legal theory, human anatomy, pathology, internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, criminal investigation technology, forensic pathology, Forensic Toxicology, forensic clinical science, forensic anthropology, forensic psychiatry, forensic toxicology analysis, etc.

Forensic medicine majors train senior scientific and technological talents who have basic medical theoretical knowledge and systematic forensic theoretical knowledge and basic skills and can engage in forensic case appraisal in public security, political and legal organs, judicial appraisal institutions and insurance companies. Forensic medicine students mainly study basic medicine, clinical medicine, law and basic knowledge of forensic medicine, receive basic skills training in medicine and forensic medicine, and have the basic ability of forensic case identification.