General Pathology

Details

Title

General Pathology

Type

Stage One

Module code

HLS377

Requirement

Compulsory

Module objective

By the end of the training period trainees will, in respect to background and principles, be able to:

• Analyse, synthesise, evaluate and apply knowledge
• Perform a range of technical and clinical skills and procedures
• Demonstrate the attitudes and behaviours necessary for professional practice as a consultant clinical scientist dealing with the complexities, uncertainties and tensions of professional practice at this level.

Knowledge and understanding

• Correctly identifies patient details relevant to each specimen
• Demonstrates understanding of normal anatomy and histology
• Demonstrates understanding of the pathological basis of disease
• Demonstrates understanding of common pathological abnormalities
• Demonstrates understanding of lymph node anatomy and dissection in cancer specimens

Technical and clinical skills

• Sets up a microscope correctly
• Recognises normal histology and normal variations of common tissue types
• Selects/identifies appropriate histochemical stains for glycogen, fat, mucins, amyloid, etc.
• Demonstrates familiarity with basic immunohistochemical markers for major tissue and tumour types and interpretation of a basic panel of immunohistochemical markers on an undifferentiated tumour
• Correctly orientates specimens
• Opens fresh specimens
• Correctly obtains fresh tissue for touch preparation, freezing, electron microscopy, genomic studies, etc.