The Staffing Concept Reform of the Forensic Medical Service of Ukraine

Abstract

The foreign experience in the training of forensic experts is analyzed in the article. This experience is compared with the corresponding training system for forensic doctors that existed in Ukraine until 2022. A reasoned assessment of the reform of the training of forensic medical experts in Ukraine is given. Proposals have been made to change this reform, which consist in the fact that pathologists would be trained instead of pathologist doctors. The proposed concept of a training program for pathologists is a synthesis of training programs for pathologists and forensic medical experts. According to the authors’concept of the pathologist should acquire a sufficient amount of competencies for practical work as a pathologist and a scope of competencies that will be acceptable for training a forensic medical expert on its basis.