Respiratory Pathology

Details

Title

Respiratory Pathology

Type

Stage One

Module code

HLS381

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

• Demonstrates understanding of specimens obtained for example via:
  • Bronchial biopsies
  • Open biopsy of lung
  • Pneumonectomy or lobectomy
  • Pleural biopsy
• Demonstrates understanding of commonly encountered neoplastic and non-neoplastic disease processes, for example:
  • Squamous cell carcinoma
  • Small cell carcinoma
  • Adenocarcinoma
  • Metastatic carcinoma
  • Vasculitis
  • Interstitial pneumonia
  • Mesothelioma

Technical and clinical skills

• Describes, dissects, and reports resection specimens, such as segmental resection, lobectomy, and pneumonectomy
• Recognises the presence of the common subtypes of primary lung cancer in biopsies and resection specimens
• Recognises the presence of metastatic cancer in the lung
• Recognises common patterns of interstitial lung disease