Competency information

Details

From routine requests, identify the histopathological specimens required to confirm a diagnosis for:

  • ophthalmic pathology
  • neuromuscular pathology
  • central nervous system pathology
  • haemopoietic pathology.

Considerations

  • The particular difficulties relating to the handling of these specialist specimens and the main diagnostic reasons for the clinical investigations.
  • The aetiology of and clinical presentation in named diseases.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Identify the clinical presentation of a range of relevant disorders of specialised organ groups and clinical subspecialist areas.