Both the didactic method and seminar method of instruction are used. PATH 618 Seminars in Anatomic Pathology. This seminar course introduces the student to medical informatics, enabling the student to search the medical literature. Advanced General Pathology. These autopsy rotations during the second year of study allow the student to become proficient in all phases of the human post-mortem examination, including evisceration, dissection, description of findings and preparation of postmortem reports.
Students receive basic instruction in the function of the autopsy service and the hospital morgue.
Specimen photography is also presented in this course. Students are exposed to basic concepts of the medicolegal investigation of death by a rotation at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of Maryland. Surgical Pathology . These rotations during the second year of study provide the student with didactic and practical experience in anatomic pathology as expressed in tissues removed during surgery and examined in the surgical pathology laboratory. Clinical Pathology and Microbiology .