The student will attend a 2-week streak of theoretical and practical classes on Diagnostic Pathology, including Clinical Pathology, Microbiology, Parasitology, and Virology allotted in the morning period. In the afternoons, the student will be on the necropsy floor, performing postmortem examination of assorted animal species, as well as preparing technical written reports about the necropsy findings. In cases of zero necropsy cases for the day, the student will be shadowing the resident on biopsy duty, accompanying surgical specimen trimming and reading at the multi-headed scope and Pathology rounds.
We have a group of 10 pathologists (7 anatomic, and 3 clinical pathologists), 9 of which are ACVP-boarded. Facilities include expansive classrooms, state-of-the-art necropsy room at the Diagnostic State Lab, multi-media observation room (for gross rounds), and multi-headed microscopes.
The student is expected to spend 40h per week (8h daily, including 1h of lunch time), attend classes in the morning and participate in necropsies in the afternoon. The student will also be asked to select at least 1 necropsy case to be responsible for report writing at the end of the 2 weeks.
We have an optional visitor's guest room located on the second floor of our Teaching Hospital. It is free of charge and includes a mini-kitchen (microwave, mini-fridge with small compartment for frozen food, cutlery, pots, toaster, and coffee maker), a bed, a study desk, and a complete bathroom. The guest room is not pet-friendly.