Medical Schools and Research Institutes Faculty and staff positions are available in both basic science and clinical departments, working as individual investigators or team members in research and teaching. More opportunities are available than ever before.
Biotechnology is a developing industry with great promise for the future.
The heightened national awareness of the impact of infectious diseases such as AIDS, and the new rules and regulations regarding environmental pollution and drug and chemical safety contribute to the increased career opportunities for program graduates. An experimental pathology background is valuable in a variety of settings, particularly those involving human disease or interpretations of data about their pathogenesis. The evolution of pathology has paralleled that of anatomy, shifting over the years from macroscopic to microscopic and molecular arenas. Pathology has benefited, in much the same manner as the new interdisciplinary science of neurobiology, from an influx of scientists with diverse backgrounds and disciplines who want to focus their interests on the study of disease. Yet pathology retains a separate and distinct central focus on the mechanisms of biologic injury and human disease not duplicated by other biomedical sciences.