The Pennsylvania State University's Eberley College of Science offers a bachelor degree in forensic science. Students must complete a minimum of 124 credits over a four year period. Courses include biological, mathematical, and physical sciences and they will learn forensic chemistry, forensic biology, and forensic anthropology in addition to social sciences. Training will involve the collection/ analysis of scientific evidence and how to present such evidence in a court of law. Once you have completed a relevant bachelor degree, you need to complete medical school to go on to become a medical examiner assistant.
The University of Phoenix offers associate, bachelor, master and doctoral programs in forensic medicine which are available entirely online. The University of Phoenix Online, accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, offers forensic science courses which teach DNA analysis, criminalistics, handwriting analysis, ballistics, bloodstain analysis, reconstructing crime scenes, DNA analysis and fingerprint and shoe print identification.
The University of Michigan Medical School, located in Ann Arbor, graduates 170 new physicians annually while hundreds of other students hold fellowships, complete their residencies, and/or participate in graduate/ postdoctoral studies. Once you graduate as an medical doctor, you could continue at the University of Michigan to complete a residency in pathology. The pathology residency program includes clinical and anatomic pathology and you will need to complete the residency to go on to become a medical examiner assistant.
Once you have graduated as a medical doctor, you can complete a residency in pathology toward your goal of becoming a medical examiner assistant and Johns Hopkins offers clinical training in anatomic pathology and clinical pathology. This four year program includes training in autopsy, cytopathology, surgical pathology, forensic pathology, clinical chemistry, medical microbiology, molecular diagnostics and many more courses. Students will also attend autopsy conferences, weekly work rounds and seminars in clinical pathology, and weekly grand rounds and research seminars.