An Analysis of Clinical Consultation Activities in Clinical Pathology

An analysis of clinical consultation activities in clinical chemistry: implications for transformation and resident training in chemical pathology.

CONTEXT Clinical consultation is a key role of pathologists. Many have advocated that pathologists expand their consulting activities to improve laboratory utilization. Although many have suggested that residency programs need to provide experience in clinical consultation, little has been written on the nature of consultation or on the methods of training. OBJECTIVE To characterize the conte...

Evolving paradigms of clinical pathology resident education and consultation.

In the complex arena of medical resident education, real-time tools have become increasingly valuable for documenting medical knowledge and practice-based learning, as well as providing, in some cases, training exercises in and of themselves (1–4). For clinical pathology in particular, the myriad of consultative activities of the laboratory medicine resident have always been a difficult area fo...

Origins of ... image analysis in clinical pathology.

The term "image analysis" is reserved for a special discipline in pathology that aims to obtain diagnostically important information in an objective and reproducible manner, by measuring and counting. The origins of measuring microscopical images are almost as old as the microscope itself. Leeuwenhoek (fig 1) in the 17th century had developed a system to measure microscopic objects. As a refere...

Clinical Pathology Teaching in Laboratory by Socratic Method

Introduction: In recent decades, a variety of teaching methods has been offered for teaching different fields of science, but the old method of questions and answer is still popular and in use. This teaching method, generally applicable to small groups, is based on questioning and finding answers by students which can increase active learning. This study evaluated students' viewpoints toward cl...

Clinical Pathology