Course Syllabus

Unit 1A: General clinical pathology
1. Introduction to clinical pathology.
2. Review of cell and tissues: Definition of terms. Methods & techniques. Cellular & tissue changes. Infiltration and regeneration. Inflammations and infections. Wound healing and repair.
3. Nature of injuries, adaptive responses, reversible & irreversible cell injury.
4. Cell accumulations: Vascular changes, Cellular growth and neoplasms.
5. Normal and cancer cell: Benign and malignant growths. In situ carcinoma. Metastasis.
Unit 1B: Systemic pathology Pathological changes in disease & conditions of various systems:
1. Respiratory tract: Tuberculosis, Bronchitis, Pleural effusion & Pneumonia, Lung abscess, emphysema, bronchiectasis, bronchial asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and tumours.
2. Cardiovascular system: Pericardial effusion, Rheumatic heart disease, Infective endocarditis, atherosclerosis, Ischemia, infarction & aneurism.
3. Gastointestinal tract: Peptic ulcer, Typhoid, carcinoma of GI tract – buccal, esophageal, gastric and intestinal, Liver, Gall bladder & pancreas: Hepatitis, chronic liver abscess, Cirrhosis: Tumours of liver, gall bladder and pancrease, Cholecystitis.
4. Kidneys & Urinary tract: Glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, Calculi, Renal failure, Renal carcinoma & Cystitis, urine analyses.
5. Central Nervous System: Vascular disorders – thrombosis, embolism, stroke, paraplegia, quadriplegia, Tumours, meningiomas- gliomas.
Unit 2: Hemtology
1. Various blood and bone marrow tests in assessment and monitoring of disease conditions: Hemoglobin, RBC, white cells & platelet counts.
2. Bleeding time, clotting time and prothrombin time.
3. Blood grouping and cross matching.
4. Blood culture and other blood tests.
5. Serological and immunological tests.
6. Examination of bone marrow: Methods of collection of blood specimen for various clinical pathology, biochemistry, microbiological tests, inference and normal values.
7. Universal safety precautions.
8. Introduction to microbiology and microbial culture of human specimen.
Unit 3: Radiology
1. Principle of Radiography, Radiography Equipments, Maintenance and Quality Control related to X-Ray only.
2. Clinical Radiography.
3. Contrast & Special Radiography procedures.
4. Modern Imaging Techniques and Recent Trends in Imaging
5. Quality Control, Radiobiology & Radiation,Safety in Radiodiagnosis / Imaging other than X-Ray related.
Practical Courses:
6. Total blood cell count and blood grouping.
7. Estimation of lipid profile: Total cholesterol and triglyceride
8. Estimation of total haemoglobin in blood sample.
9. Estimation of blood glucose and HbA1c in blood.
10. Demonstration of immunoassay by ELISA for diagnosis of different diseases.
11. Demonstration of human tissue sectioning and histological slide preparation.
12. Observation of histological tissue sections of different types of cancer.
13. Observation and identification of tissue sections of different organs.
14. Antibiotic assay by disc method.
15. Microbiological study in patient specimen.
16. Staining of microbes.