DESCRIPTION : This Area of Concentration intends to present a group of courses which should provide the student with solid grounding for the understanding of disease processes.
The courses include topics which deal with the study of disease anywhere in the spectrum between very practical diagnostic pathology and laboratory medicine to disease processes of specific organ systems and ultrastructural, biochemical and molecular manifestations of disease.
The format of these electives includes lectures of seminars, rotations of clerkships and periods of self-study and research. Most of the faculty involved in the Pathology Concentration have their home base in the Institute of Pathology (University Hospitals); this is a five story structure which houses facilities for autopsies, surgical pathology, clinical and research laboratories. Major central resources which could be available include electron microscopy, immunology, flow cytometry, immunocytochemistry, tissue culture and molecular biology laboratories among others.
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