To become a professional forensic anthropologist you must enter a graduate program where one of more forensic anthropologists can give the training you need to earn a Ph.D. degree (4-6 years), a postdoctoral research program (1-2 years),three years in practice at a university, institution, FBI and other places, and a thorough grounding in human osteology, gross human anatomy and physiology, and a sound background of the history of the discipline and cases. Then you may take examinations, written and practical, administered by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology. If passed, you are made a Diplomate of the ABFA (D-ABFA). During this time you will expected to attend the annual meetings of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and prepare a poster or talk.

so that means i have to go to school for 11 years in order for me to become a professional forensic anthropologist and work for the FBI? and at the end i have to prepare a speech or poster