Graduate Catalog

MDBS 604 Pathology

Medical students explore the causes, mechanisms, structural changes, and clinical manifestations of human illness and disease. Course content focuses on the cell as a unit of health and disease; cell injury, cell death, and adaptations; inflammation and repair; hemodynamic disorders, thrombembolism and shock; neoplasia; genetic and pediatric diseases; environmental and nutritional diseases; and foundations of laboratory medicine. The foundational concepts covered in this course serve as building blocks for organ-specific pathology presented throughout Period 2.

Credits

3

Distribution

3-0-3

Offered

Fall