ABMDI Practice Test Questions ( 2025)
Comprehensive questions and verified answers.
Medical examiner/coroner authority at a death scene comes from ~CORRECT
ANSWER~✓✓The medical examiner/coroner office policy derived from state
statutory authority.
When investigating a death, it is best to ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Use all
available resources.
A good point to remember regarding report writing is that ~CORRECT
ANSWER~✓✓Information is of little use unless it is properly documented and
communicated to others.
If you are called to a hospital's emergency department to begin the medicolegal
death investigation of a death caused by a firearm, the medicolegal "scene" is
~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓The emergency room
State systems, or states with a "State Medical Examiner" typically investigate
~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓All deaths within their state that fall under statute.
You work as an investigator for the medical examiner's office. The local high
school sociology teacher has invited you to give a presentation on "medicolegal
death investigation." Which ONE of the following topics would be MOST
appropriate? ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓The Role of the Medical Examiner
, Proper distribution and use of investigative reports include all of the following
EXCEPT which ONE? ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Providing medical information
to the news media.
A recent infant death you investigated has been termed a SIDS death on the
preliminary autopsy report. You, as the investigator, must contact ~CORRECT
ANSWER~✓✓The local SIDS Center and the local police agency.
When one is writing descriptive information about a death scene, the name,
address, and telephone number of the decedent are all part of the _____________
to be included in the case file. ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Demographic
information
The public information officer (PIO) for your jurisdiction requests information
regarding an investigation for exclusive release. The investigator should
~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Advise the PIO of office policy and decline to provide
information that would not otherwise be provided to other news agencies.
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 ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Inquire
whether the physician had marital problems.
A businesswoman from out of town is found dead in her motel room, the victim
of apparent homicidal violence. Personal items in the room reveal she is married
and lives in an adjoining state. In order to notify her next-of-kin, the investigator
should ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Contact the law enforcement agency in the
husband's jurisdiction. Ask them to send a police officer(s) to the husband's
Comprehensive questions and verified answers.
Medical examiner/coroner authority at a death scene comes from ~CORRECT
ANSWER~✓✓The medical examiner/coroner office policy derived from state
statutory authority.
When investigating a death, it is best to ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Use all
available resources.
A good point to remember regarding report writing is that ~CORRECT
ANSWER~✓✓Information is of little use unless it is properly documented and
communicated to others.
If you are called to a hospital's emergency department to begin the medicolegal
death investigation of a death caused by a firearm, the medicolegal "scene" is
~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓The emergency room
State systems, or states with a "State Medical Examiner" typically investigate
~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓All deaths within their state that fall under statute.
You work as an investigator for the medical examiner's office. The local high
school sociology teacher has invited you to give a presentation on "medicolegal
death investigation." Which ONE of the following topics would be MOST
appropriate? ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓The Role of the Medical Examiner
, Proper distribution and use of investigative reports include all of the following
EXCEPT which ONE? ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Providing medical information
to the news media.
A recent infant death you investigated has been termed a SIDS death on the
preliminary autopsy report. You, as the investigator, must contact ~CORRECT
ANSWER~✓✓The local SIDS Center and the local police agency.
When one is writing descriptive information about a death scene, the name,
address, and telephone number of the decedent are all part of the _____________
to be included in the case file. ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Demographic
information
The public information officer (PIO) for your jurisdiction requests information
regarding an investigation for exclusive release. The investigator should
~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Advise the PIO of office policy and decline to provide
information that would not otherwise be provided to other news agencies.
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 ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Inquire
whether the physician had marital problems.
A businesswoman from out of town is found dead in her motel room, the victim
of apparent homicidal violence. Personal items in the room reveal she is married
and lives in an adjoining state. In order to notify her next-of-kin, the investigator
should ~CORRECT ANSWER~✓✓Contact the law enforcement agency in the
husband's jurisdiction. Ask them to send a police officer(s) to the husband's
