Description

This course offers insight into the medical examiners office and death investigation.  The student will be involved in investigations, performance of forensic autopsies, evaluation of toxicologic data, trace evidence collection, sexual assault work-ups and proper completion of death certificates, including the appropriate classification of manner of death.

Course objectives

• Learn to correlate the clinical history, past medical history and the scene with the findings of autopsy
• Exposure to a wide variety of disease processes associated with death by natural causes
• Learn to document and preserve forensic evidence including clothing, bullets, and trace evidence and maintain proper chain of custody

 Instructional Methodology 

• Conferences - every two weeks
• Call - none

Description

This course will correlate pathology diagnoses with clinical presentation and clinical progress. The student will be involved in an evaluation of medical autopsies.

Course objectives

• Learn how pathology diagnoses support clinical treatment
• Learn how pathology and radiology correlate with each other
• Learn how autopsy diagnoses can confirm or expand upon pre-mortem diagnoses

Instructional methodology (approximate # of hours per week)

• Lecures - 1-2
• Rounds/discussions - 1-2
• Patient contact - none
   

Description

This course will introduce students to surgical pathology. Students will be exposed to gross and microscopic pathology. Students will be exposed to intraoperative frozen sections. The course will be designed to meet the student's ultimate career interests.

Course Objectives

• Learn the scope of pathology and what surgical pathologists do
• Learn the indications for and the methodology of intraoperative consultation (frozen section)
• Learn the dissection techniques for common surgical specimens
• Learn the gross and microscopic features of common neoplasms

 

Instructional Methodology (approximate # of hours per week)

• Lectures - 5 
• Rounds/Discussions - 20 
• Patient Contact - none 
• Lab
• Patient Load 
• Call - none

Description

The student will rotate with a senior pathologist on various rotations including surgical pathology, cytopathology, autopsy pathology and clinical pathology.  Designed for students who are considering a career in pathology.

Course objectives

• Gain an understanding of the breadth of pathology as a specialty
• Learn a pathologist's role as a consultant in clinical medicine
• Obtain experience in some basic pathology procedures
• Learn and experience role of laboratory direction

Instructional methodology

• Rounds/Discussions
• Patient Contact
• Lab
• Patient Load - none
• Call - none

Description

This course is designed to provide the student an opportunity to participate in the laboratory evaluation and diagnosis of malignant and non-malignant hematologic disorders. The student will be involved in the morphologic, histochemical and immunohistochemical, immunophenotypic, cytogenetic and molecular analyses of peripheral blood smear, bone marrow aspirate and biopsies and lymph node biopsies. Correlation of these data with the clinical history and physical findings will be emphasized.

Course objectives

• Learn to use a multidiciplinary, integrated approach to the diagnosis of hematologic disorders utilizing morphology, flow cytometry, classical cytogenetics and molecular analysis.
• Be able to diagnose acute and chronic leukemias and determine cell lineage, to distinguish myeloproliferative and myelodysplastic disorders from reactive processes and be familiar with the protean manifestations of plasma cell dycraias.
• Be able to distinguish myeloproliferative/myelodysplastic disorders from reactive processes.

Conferences:

• combined hematopathology/Adult Hematology - 1st and 3rd Thursday
• combined Hematopathylogy/Pediatric Hematology - 4th Thursday

Instructional methodology

• Lectures - 2
• Rounds/Discussions - 15
• Patient Contact - none
• Lab - 5
• Patient Load - none
• Call - none