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Department: | MEPAT-Pathology | ||
Course: | 510-Anatomical Pathology | ||
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Course Director: | Syeling Lai | ||
Course Faculty: | Syeling Lai | ||
Elective Location: | VAMC | ||
Elective Offered Terms: | |||
Months: | 1B,1C,2A,2B,2C,3A,3B,3C,4A,4B,4C | ||
Two Week Periods: | |||
Min. Number of Students: | 0 Max: 1 | ||
Elective Type: | Clinical | ||
Credits | |||
Matriculating prior to fall 2015 | 8 | ||
Matriculating fall 2015 and beyond | 4 | ||
Pre-requisites: | Medicine or Pediatrics or Psychiatry or Surgery or OBGYN or Family/Community Medicine or Neurology | ||
Open to US Visiting Students: | Yes | ||
Open to International Visiting Students: | No | ||
Grading: | H,HP, P, MP, F Narrative Evaluation | ||
Faculty Approval: | No |
Time Commitment | Percentage of time expected | ||
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Regular Hours (Mon-Fri): | 5 days/wk; 9 hrs/day | Inpatient Ward: | 0 |
Night Call: | No | Inpatient consultations: | 0 |
Number on-call nights: | 0 | Outpatient clinics: | 0 |
Weekends: | No | Surgery: | 0 |
Laboratory | 0 | ||
Didactic: | 0 | ||
Other: | 0 | ||
Course Description & Learning Objectives: | |||
This elective is designed to provide the learner with an introduction to anatomical pathology in order to increase understanding of the pathogenesis of diseases and the pathologist's role in establishment of diagnoses. Learning Objectives -Describe the role of frozen section in intraoperative management of patients -Describe the morphology and list different pathologic diagnoses in common diseases during surgical pathology and cytopathology sign-out -Explain basic techniques in specimen grossing and sectioning of common large resection specimens |
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Learning Activities | |||
Students will rotate different days on various anatomic pathology services, including surgical pathology, cytopathology and/or autopsy services.
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Evaluation Methods | |||
100% Clinical performance
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When and Where to report on first day of service: | |||
VAMC Pathology Department, 8 am | |||
For additional information regarding this elective contact: | |||
Contact Name: | Yvetter Boney | ||
Contact Phone: | 713-798-5490 | ||
Contact Fax: | 713-798-3665 | ||
Contact Location: | One Baylor Plaza Houston TX 77030 Pathology Dept 213B MS: BCM315 | ||
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Email: | yboney@bcm.edu |