For graduate students training for a career in biomedical research. 3R, 3L. P, consent of instructor. I II Lectures, conferences, demonstrations and laboratory investigations relating to disease. Use of current autopsy, biopsy and clinical pathology material. An intern-type program with students participating in surgical pathology, autopsies and cytopathology.
Instruction is strongly clinically oriented.
P, PATH 801 and 12 weeks of clinical clerkships. An interpretive approach to the evaluation of laboratory data in the diagnosis and management of clinical disorders. Topics include bacteriology, blood component therapy, body fluid analysis, clinical chemistry, coagulation, hematology, immunohematology, mycology, toxicology, urinalysis, and virology. P, PATH 801 and 12 weeks of clinical clerkships. May be taken more than once for credit.