PATH 609 SURGICAL PATHOLOGY
This course provides didactic and clinical practical experience during the second year of study of the Pathologists? Assistant Program. The student shall become proficient in all phases of anatomic pathology dissection with respect to surgically excised specimens, including specimen identification, tissue triaging for ancillary studies, review and interpretation of clinical data, gross specimen description, sectioning, and sampling, intraoperative consults and frozen sections, specimen photography, and cancer staging by gross pathology.