PATH 560 Clinical Pathology

An overview of clinical pathology relating clinical laboratory testing to disease processes.

Credits

3

Offered

Fall

Outcomes

1. 1. Identify normal and abnormal test results.
2. 2. Compile a set of differential diagnoses based on laboratory results.
3. 3. Explain the purposes of different types of imaging.
4. 4. Use proper descriptive terms for various increases and decreases in test results, e,g, leukocytosis, glucosuria (glycosuria), pancytopenia.
5. 5. Utilizing laboratory test results, indicate the disease process that is most likely occurring when tests are abnormal (out of range).
6. 6. Distinguish between the different types of anemias.
7. 7. Describe the process for determining ABO and Rh typing.
8. 8. Distinguish between the different types of leukemias.