PATH 201 - Clinical Pathology

[88 Hours]

This course includes lectures, demonstration, small group instruction and laboratory exercises. The course is designed to introduce students to appropriate use of clinical laboratories for screening, diagnosis, and prognosis, as well as to increase the student’s understanding of disease. Proper use of diagnostic procedures is based, in part, on knowledge of the patho-physiology of disease and, in part, on knowledge of the limitations imposed by methodology and instrumentation. The laboratory exercises are designed to enhance the student’s understanding of the performance, and technical limitations, of a few selected clinical laboratory procedures (e.g. examination of peripheral blood smears, macroscopic and microscopic urinalysis, etc.) most likely to be of value to the student in subsequent practice.