Introduction to Surgical Pathology - Duke

2 credits · Allied Health Graduate Program

This is the initial practical rotation conducted during the first summer session. It is designed to re-acquaint students with the techniques of gross dissection, descriptions, and submission of tissue samples from surgical specimens, focusing on small biopsy specimens and building on concepts presented in PATHASST 204. In runs concurrently with PATHASST 222, and is designed to introduce students to the variations and differences between a university medical center and a veterans administration medical center's Surgical Pathology Service. Credit: 2. Topper, faculty and staff