A senior elective program in anatomic pathology.

Abstract

The faculty of the Department of Pathology at the University of Miami School of Medicine has developed a senior elective program in anatomic pathology for fourth-year students. The program is designed in such a way that the fundamental concepts involved will be easily remembered and clinically useful. The teaching methods, which maximize active learning, include the students' group resolution of challenging unknown autopsy cases, participation in the performance of necropsies, individual presentation of one of their own autopsy cases to the group, and work with several interactive videodisc programs. The program has proved to be both effective and popular. It could be reproduced with relative ease in any academic department of pathology.