The Department of Forensic Medicine presents approximately 70 lectures and/or tutorials to undergraduate medical students during the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th years of study. In addition (in the fifth year of study), each student attends daily medico-legal autopsy sessions for a period of two weeks at the Pretoria Medico-Legal Laboratory. Optional participation in special study modules and attendance at student elective training periods (for one month) are also offered.

At a postgraduate level, the Department presents training for previously qualified medical practitioners who hold joint appointment on the shared staff establishment of the Gauteng Provincial Department of Health and the University of Pretoria as medical registrars/residents that comprises a four year residency/training programme. Additionally, students who have completed an undergraduate BSc degree in biomedical sciences, with appropriate preparatory subjects, are admitted to fulltime or part time study in the field of medical criminalistics.