Pathology (PATH-MD)

This 4-week elective will provide medical students with practical experience in the NYU clinical microbiology laboratory, which features a newly renovated, state-of-the-art laboratory facility. During this elective, the medical student will rotate through the laboratory sections of bacteriology, mycology, parasitology, mycobacteriology, and molecular diagnostics. There are numerous didactic conferences in which the student will participate. The students are provided with supporting literature for each of the diagnostic tests performed, they will meet regularly with the Director of the laboratory for didactic sessions, and they will attend daily in-lab clinical rounds with the infectious diseases service team.

This is an advanced 4-week elective that seeks to build on knowledge, and experiences gained in the pre-clerkship and clerkship years. It may be used to build upon experience from the 2-week Pathology Introductory Elective.

This is an introductory 2-week elective that seeks to introduce the student to the field of Pathology. The student will gain a deeper understanding of the core principles, foundational knowledge, and essential skills relevant to the specialty through encounters with a diverse range of cases reflective of this specialty. The student has the opportunity to see how the "book knowledge" of pathology is applied to the practice of diagnostic pathology and its key role in clinical decision-making. The student will gain this experience through spending time on the surgical pathology service where the student will be exposed to a large variety of diagnostic surgical and medical specimens, and will learn how to approach specimen evaluation on both the gross and microscopic level, considering clinical history, disease mechanisms, and the implications of diagnoses for patient management.