Acad Pathol. 2017 Jul 24;4:2374289517691769. doi: 10.1177/2374289517691769. eCollection 2017.
Academic pathology
D Yitzchak Goldstein, Michael Prystowsky
PMID: 28815197 PMCID: PMC5528909 DOI: 10.1177/2374289517691769
The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040.
Keywords: cystic fibrosis; developmental and functional abnormalities; disease mechanisms; genetic mechanisms; inheritance patterns; pathology competencies