Clinical Clerkship: Pathology I

Catalog description

These four-week clerkships provide students with an opportunity to work with anatomic and clinical pathologists in an approved teaching hospital. Students will gain an understanding of principles and patterns of histopathology used in evaluating patient specimens; develop microscopy skills in the areas of cytology, hematology and urinalysis; assist with autopsies; and interpret clinical laboratory studies for chemistry, immunopathology and hematology/blood bank. Clerks will obtain a greater appreciation of pathophysiology as relevant to clinical medicine.