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ABMDI REGISTRY EXAM (2024/2025)
ACTUAL CORRECT QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED DETAILED ANSWERS BY
EXPERTS |FREQUENTLY TESTED
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS || ALREADY
GRADED A+ <LATEST VERSION A&B>
MEDICOLEGAL DEATH INVESTIGATION




1. A funeral director contacts you concerning the death of a local physician's
spouse. Upon discovering her dead, the physician called the funeral director
and requested that the body be immediately removed to the funeral home.
You should do all of the following EXCEPT:
a. follow your agency's policy consistent with home deaths.
b. instruct the funeral director not to remove the body.
c. explain your agency's home death procedures to the physician.
d. verify the decedent's medical history.
e. inquire whether the physician had marital problems. - ANSWER ✔ E.
inquire whether the physician had marital problems.


2. Which one of the following is FALSE? If a co-worker uncharacteristically
starts telling death-related jokes, this may be viewed as

, a. appropriate investigator behavior
b. his/her inability to handle job related stress
c. his/her coping mechanism
d. an indicatior of how stressed the co-worker is
e. inappropriate behavior that must be reported - ANSWER ✔
appropriate investigator behavior


3. Choose one of the most important communication skills for gathering
information at the scene


a. write down your thoughts
b. talk to all neighbors
c. avoid long interviews by giving out your buisness card
d. avoid eye contact with suspects
e. listen and actively study witnesses - ANSWER ✔ listen and actively
study witnesses


4. Family member often ask why the ME/C is involved. When discussing the
case with the family, what is the best prescribed answer to give them?


a. explain that the decedent's attending physician does not want to be
involved with certifying the cause and manner of death
b. explain to them that you are there because the police requested your
presence
c. simply tell the family, "its the law"
d. tell them to seek legal counsel if they strongly oppose the ME/C's
involvement
e. explain what is believed to have occurred and why the ME/C is
investigating the death - ANSWER ✔ explain what is believed to have
occurred and why the ME/C is investigating the death

,5. A previously healthy 4-month old infant is found unresponsive in his crib at
home. He is rushed to a hospital, where he is maintained on a respirator for 6
hours before being declared dead. No trauma or diseased is noted. With
regard to agency responsibilty,


a. the treating physician and hospital where the decedent was received
takes responsibility
b. the absence of trauma precludes the ME/C jurisdiction
c. the ME/C is without jursdiction because of hospitalization
d. the ME/C has jurisdiction because of the unexplained death of an
infant
e. the ME/C should check with the district attorney's office - ANSWER
✔ the ME/C has jurisdiction because of the unexplained death of an
infant


6. A 32yo dies of AIDS; it is permissable for the death investigator to


a. release the cause and manner of death
b. disclose information about the death to interested parties
c. inform the media as to the cause of death
d. amend the death certificate for the emotional well being of the family
e. release medical records of the decedent - ANSWER ✔ release the
cause and manner of death


7. Immediatley upon arriving at the scene of death, the death investigator
should do which of the following


a. make sure sufficient boundaries are established
b. examine the victim for vital signs
c. assign an officer to guard the scene if the investigator suspects
problems
d. refuse to acknowledge the presence of the media

, e. identify and contact the law enforcement office in charge - ANSWER
✔ identify and contact the law enforcement office in charge


8. An intermediate-range gunshot wound is identiable by


a. powder residue inside the entrance wound
b. a gray smudge or smoke residue on the clothing
c. tearing of the skin surface
d. stippling surrounding the entrance wound
e. wiping around the entrance wound - ANSWER ✔ stippling
surrounding the entrance wound


9. You've just finished a 40-hour work wek of constant scene investigations.
You feel pressured and stressed and should consider all of the following
EXCEPT?


a. relieve anxieties by talking to co-workers
b. seek help from your employer about ounseling-assistance programs
c. exercise
d. keep your feeligns to yourself; every investigator had this problem
e. seek support by talking to friends and family - ANSWER ✔ keep your
feelings to yourself; every investigator had this problem


10.Soot detected in the airway of a fire victim indictes


a. charring of the human tissue during the fire
b. breathin during the fire
c. that the fire was the cause of death
d. an artifact caused by the fire
e. that the victimw as a heavy smoker - ANSWER ✔ breathin during the
fire

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