ADVANCED RESPIRATORY PATHOLOGY

Graduate

This course involves advanced training in veterinary and comparative respiratory pathology, with emphasis on mechanisms of disease. This advanced course provides residents and graduate students with an in-depth understanding of the respiratory defence mechanism, host response to injury, inflammation, pathogenesis of diseases and animal models of human disease. The course consists of formal lectures and independent work by the graduate students describing microscopic lesions (histopathology). Two seminars will be presented by the graduate student. PREREQUISITE: Permission by the instructor. LECTURES: 2 hours LAB/SEMINARS: 2 hours TUTORIALS: 2 HOURS OF CREDIT: 3