what training do you need to be a coroner
They don't do autopsies â that's done by the medical examiner from a neighboring county. Coroners do pronounce people dead and sign death certificates. You don't have to have any medical training to be a coroner here. You just have to live in the county and be old enough to get on the ballot. Even though they run for office on party lines, party politics don't matter very much, Wood says. People politics do.