Pathology

Catalog description

Pathology is the science that seeks to provide a bridge between the other basic sciences and the clinical sciences. It involves study of the nature of disease, its causes, courses, complications, and sequelae. This core course provides an introduction to the basic changes in the morphology of cells, tissues, and organs in diseased states. Extensive exposure to clinically relevant topics helps the student to differentiate abnormal from normal, and to correlate the clinical aspects of these alterations. Cell injury and cell death, inflammation, repair processes, hemodynamic changes and chemical and physical injuries are also discussed. Throughout the first two years, pathology is represented in each of the Systems to discuss the pathologies peculiar to and characteristic of the various systems of the body.