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ELECT EPATB - Renal/Urological Pathology


Director Fourth Year Department Courses: Ashley Flowers, MD
Administrative Contact: Kix Hutchins 
Number of Students Per 4 Week Block: 1
Duration: 2 Weeks
Location: Academic Medical Center at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport
Selective Available During Blocks: All
Course Code: EPATB
2 Credits

Goals:
This is a 2 week elective in anatomic pathology focusing on medical renal pathology and/or genitourinary pathology to prepare for a career in pathology, nephrology and/or urology. The student will gain knowledge of the clinical presentation and histopathologic correlation of benign and neoplastic diseases of the genitourinary system.

Objectives:
Patient Care

  • Independently collect clinical information by reviewing the patient’s electronic health record and reviewing any clinical photos
  • Assist in grossing of genitourinary cases.
  • Attend genitourinary related frozen sections. Assist in the preparation of frozen sections.
  • Formulate a preliminary diagnosis
  • Suggest appropriate diagnostic tests relevant to the histopathologic evaluation.

Medical Knowledge

  •  Become familiar with the clinical presentation of common medial renal and urologic diseases.
  • Formulate a differential diagnosis based on the clinical presentation and the histopathology

Interpersonal and Communication Skills

  • Communicate with residents and faculty on the renal and genitourinary service.
  • Write organized, appropriately focused, and accurate clinical information.

Professionalism

  • Demonstrate personal accountability, integrity, compassion, respect, altruism, and empathy when interacting with all members of the health care team, patients and their families, in order to provide the best patient care
  • Demonstrate punctuality and ability to complete patient care tasks efficiently

Practice-Based Learning and Improvement

  • Demonstrate self-directed learning in daily practice
    • Identify strengths, deficiencies, and limits in one’s knowledge and clinical skills through self-evaluation
    • Develop a plan for improvement, perform appropriate learning activities, solicit and incorporate feedback
  • Demonstrate evidence-based clinical practice
    • Access appropriate resources to answer clinical questions
    • Critically appraise relevant literature and incorporate it  into patient care

Systems-Based Practice

  • Demonstrate the appropriate utilization of ancillary testing, and review of clinical notes.
  • Develop an understanding of the clinical impact of pathologic diagnoses.


Resources for Learning:
Participating Faculty: Dr. Flowers, Dr. Gu, Dr. King, Dr. Crawford
Texts: Diagnostic Pathology Kidney Diseases. Colvin, Chang. 2nd edition Elsevier
Text: Diagnostic Pathology Genitourinary. Amin, Tickoo. 2nd edition. Elsevier

Specific Duties of Senior Students:
 

  • Participate in gross examination of genitourinary specimens
  • Participate in intraoperative frozen sections of genitourinary
  • Review clinical history via the EMR
  • Formulate a preliminary diagnosis and differential diagnosis
  • Review all medial renal and genitourinary cases with faculty


Evaluation:
The medical student will be evaluated by the faculty and/or residents who are assigned to rotation during the same time as the medical student.

Offered: ALL

Pass/Fail