The Systemic Pathology Training is a core component of this program. This Systemic Pathology Training is organized into ten body systems that are covered once during the three-year residency. Each system is organized into neoplastic, viral, bacterial, fungal, parasitic, toxic, and miscellaneous conditions. Study material, representating more than 700 cases, is prepared by our residents under the supervision of our training officer and staff members. Residents research each disease entity, update the current findings, prepare a histomorphological description, and a handout on each case.
Residents provide the oral and written case presentations in biweekly didactic sessions.
The Department of Veterinary Pathology believes these Systemic Pathology Study Sets could be made available to other training programs through the World Wide Web. Based on positive feedback on this concept from Pathology department heads at recent national meetings, we are going forward with this project. However, we are currently in the process of making major improvements in the look and feel of the this system. Since the summer, we have gone through several significant revisions to the software, and are incorporating feedback we received from our December 2000 ACVP presentations. It will be available soon.