Pathology is one of the most diverse specialties in medicine.
It incorporates a number of highly individualized disciplines that do not appear to have an immediate relationship with each other except that their function takes place in hospital laboratories. Nonetheless, the pathologist is regarded as the expert in many realms, including transfusion medicine, surgical pathology, microbiology and cytopathology. As in medicine generally, the trend in pathology has been one of increasing specialization. Excellent combined training experiences abound in subspecialty fields as well, such as hematopathology, encompassing aspects of both anatomic and clinical pathology. To train anatomic and clinical pathologists in all aspects of contemporary laboratory diagnosis, technology and management To train clinically oriented residents in modern methods of clinical investigation to advance knowledge applied to anatomic pathology and laboratory medicine.