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Kittitas (pronounced 'KITT-i-tass') County is located in central Washington State. It spans from the lush forested Cascade Mountains to the upper Yakima River Valley plains and the Columbia River.
Kittitas County, WA - 10/26/2022 - Kittitas County Coroner’s Office expands community partnerships through increased emphasis on Forensic Pathology Internships for CWU students.
Kittitas County Coroner Nick Henderson announced that the Coroner’s Office has expanded its medicolegal death investigations internship program in cooperation with Central Washington University. Henderson said “We started our student intern program with CWU in the Fall of 2020 and had 3 interns in 2021. We are excited by the response since then because we have now doubled that number with 6 student interns for Fall quarter in 2022 and more applications are currently being processed.” “Our program is a participatory teaching program in which they receive training and experience in report writing, data entry, processing toxicology requests, evidence collection, and in the principles of medicolegal death investigation. They are invited to join and participate with our deputy coroners at scene investigations and are also invited to attend autopsies, where they receive direct instruction from our forensic pathologists, both at our facility and in cooperation with the King County Medical Examiner’s Office in Seattle”. Henderson went on to explain “We want these students to learn as much as possible about the medicolegal death investigation process, we also hope some of them will develop an interest in forensic pathology and the field of medicolegal science because our country is currently facing a shortage of practitioners in these areas.” Students can earn college credit through CWU for their participation in the internship program if they choose to do so, or they can just participate for their own personal information and understanding.
Kittitas County, from the Cascades to the Columbia, and online at http://www.co.kittitas.wa.us
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Contact: Kittitas County Coroner Nick Henderson509-933-8200nick.henderson@co.kittitas.wa.us