NCS 611 - Introduction to Pathology

4.5 Credit(s)

Prerequisites: NBS 512, NBS 513, NBS 521, NBS 522, NBS 524, NBS 525, NBS 526
The pathology I lecture/lab series introduces the student to the fundamental basis of disease by studying pathophysiology on both cellular and genetic scales. Such studies include cell death and adaptation, inflammation, tissue regeneration and fibrosis, hemodynamic disorders, neoplasia, genetic diseases, and infectious disease. Each pathophysiologic process studied is placed in a clinical context by reviewing associated physical, radiographic, gross, and microscopic findings. Laboratory exercises require the student to apply information acquired in lecture to various clinical scenarios that are more frequently encountered in practice. The course concludes with the beginning of the study of diseases by organ system.