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Catalog/Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PATH 200 - GENERAL AND SYSTEMIC PATHOLOGY

[123 Hours]
This course is an introduction to the study of disease, its causes, its mechanisms, and its effects upon the body. The first part of the course is concentrates on the general reactions of tissues to different types of injury. In the second part, each organ system is considered with respect to the important diseases, which affect it. Each disease is related to clinical signs and symptoms, which will be encountered in patients. The subject material is taught by lectures, laboratory sessions, and selected case studies, using fixed tissue, microscopic slides, virtual slides, video clips, and selected web-based, independent learning modules.