While teaching does not comprise a major component of the training program, instructional experience helps develop communication skills essential to all scientific endeavors. Each student and graduate advisory committee designs an individualized graduate program. This ensures that graduate training is tailored to suit the needs of the individual's program. The departmental approach to curriculum places less emphasis on didactic course work and greater emphasis on structured activities designed to aid trainees to 'learn by doing'. Seminars and conferences are an important part of training in pathobiology.
All graduate students attend a Research Seminar series.
Students in the residency training program also register for a Microscopy Seminar and weekly review conferences in anatomical and clinical pathology. The Microscopy Seminar combines both anatomical and clinical pathology. All graduate students must present at least one seminar each year as part of the departmental Research Seminar series. The first seminar is a protocol seminar in which any preliminary findings are described along with an explanation of the planned research program. Each year thereafter, a short progress seminar summarizes the experimental results of the research program.