Chicago Medical School Department of Pathology

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Faculty Affiliate sites Staff Sophomore Pathology Course

Pathology Electives Other Web Sites Orientation for New Medical Students Career Opportunities

Chicago Medical School Department of Pathology

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Faculty Affiliate sites Staff Sophomore Pathology Course

Pathology Electives Other Web Sites Orientation for New Medical Students Career Opportunities

COURSES AVAILABLE TO MEDICAL STUDENTS

IN THE SOPHOMORE YEAR
SOPHOMORE PATHOLOGY COURSE

• is required of all students
• is designed to provide a suitable background in pathology for further studies in medicine, to bridge the basic science and clinical disciplines, and to provide a vocabulary of disease as well as a basic understanding of the responses of cells and organ systems to disease processes
• is also designed to provide knowledge of the principal disorders of each organ system and to facilitate a reasoned approach to the use of diagnostic laboratory testing

PATHOLOGY HONORS PROGRAM

• is offered to selected students during the second and third quarters of the regular sophomore pathology course
• consists of a group of hospital experiences which supplement the regular laboratory sessions of the course
• provides an enhanced opportunity to integrate the learning of pathology with its application to the practice of medicine

SPECIAL PATHOLOGY STUDY GROUP

• is open to all interested students enrolled in the regular sophomore pathology course
• is conducted on-site at CMS
• consists of a series of microscopic slide review sessions led by one of our hospital-based faculty

SOPHOMORE ELECTIVES

• are open to all students
• include (among others): Transfusion Medicine, Geographic Pathology and Tropical Medicine, Applied Neuropathology, Electron Microscopic Diagnosis, Advanced Hematology, Chemical Pathology, Diagnostic Microbiology, Pathogenetic Mechanisms in Human Disease

IN THE JUNIOR YEAR
JOURNAL CLUB/SEMINAR

• is open to all students

IN THE SENIOR YEAR
ELECTIVE CLERKSHIPS IN PATHOLOGY

• open to all students
• provide an in-depth exposure to the practice of pathology as a medical specialty

ELECTIVE FORENSIC PATHOLOGY CLERKSHIP

• provides an in-depth exposure to the practice of pathology in the investigation of death from trauma and maladventure

FELLOWSHIP IN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL PATHOLOGY

• is available to one student each year
• optionally extends for 4, 8, or 12 weeks
• carries a stipend awarded by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists

You are invited to visit the pathology website
If you would like to see our restricted pages, which contain our teaching materials, call our office at extension 3261 for a student password.

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Return to Home Page of CMS Pathology at RFUMS